A-Demilich

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A 4/4 Skeleton Wizard that costs {U} less per instant/sorcery cast this turn — often 0-mana after a few spells — with a recursive self-exile cost from the graveyard. Its attack trigger copies a graveyard instant/sorcery for free, making it a repeating spellslinger engine. Signature in Brawl spellslinger and combo shells that chain instants/sorceries to cast it for free repeatedly; the pip-heavy base cost (UUUU) and attack-trigger-only payoff temper its Commander rating, where it's solid but not defining.

• A-Demilich (Arena rebalanced version) is commander=not_legal but brawl=legal, meaning it only appears in 1v1 Arena Brawl — this divergence is unusual and affects deckbuilding in both formats.

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• Demilich's cost reduction and graveyard recursion make it a near-free recursive threat after casting 4 instants/sorceries in a turn, effectively functioning as a storm payoff without requiring a full storm count.

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• The attack trigger copies but does not recast from hand — you still need instants/sorceries in your graveyard at attack time, so early-game it may attack with nothing to copy; sequence spells before attacking to maximize value.

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