Lich

Lich
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Wizard
Kingdom card?	Yes
Set	Allies
Illustrator(s)	Harald Lieske
Card text
+6 Cards +2 Actions Skip a turn. When you trash this, discard it and gain a cheaper card from the trash.

Lich is an Action-Wizard card from Allies. It provides huge non-terminal draw, but at a steep price: every Lich you play makes you lose one of your future turns. If you get sick of having that in your deck, too bad—it also can't be permanently trashed!

It is part of a split pile that it shares with the other Wizards: Student, Conjurer, and Sorcerer.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• Skipping a turn means that the next time you would take a turn, you don't; nothing happens for that turn: no "start of turn" abilities, no phases. Play continues with the player to your left as usual.
• You can skip an extra turn, like one from Voyage.
• Skipped turns still count for the tiebreaker however they would have if taken.
• If you play multiple Liches you will skip multiple turns.
• When you trash Lich, you put it from the trash into your discard pile, which does not trigger abilities that care about gaining cards; then you gain a card costing less than Lich from the trash, which does trigger such abilities.
• Gaining a cheaper card is mandatory if possible.

Other Rules clarifications

• If you play Lich and Outpost in the same turn, you draw 3 cards, skip the Outpost turn, and you keep that 3-card hand for your next turn.
• If you skip a Voyage or Outpost turn, you discard them from play during the Clean-up of the next turn that happens (either yours or another player's).
• If you are taking multiple extra turns, you can order them. The first turn you take will be the one that gets skipped by Lich.
• If you Possess a player and make them trash a Lich, you can choose to either put the Lich in their discard pile, or set it aside (to put in their discard pile at the end of the turn). Either way, you will still gain a cheaper card from the trash.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+6 Cards +2 Actions Skip a turn. When you trash this, discard it and gain a cheaper card from the trash.	Allies	March 2022

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
German	Lich			+6 Karten +2 Aktionen Setze einen Zug aus. Wenn du diese Karte entsorgst, lege sie ab und nimm eine billigere Karte aus dem Müll.

Trivia

Official card art.

Lich is the first card that can gain Shelters other than Necropolis or Curses from the trash.

Preview

And Lich comes back when you try to trash it, like a Fortress only not to your hand. Also Lich can uh skip your turn? Well maybe you aren't getting another turn anyway.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Allies Preview 4:Recursion

Wording

"Skip a turn" means exactly what everyone will know it means despite having fun questions, and there's a rulebook. "Skip your next turn, but this is cumulative somehow okay" was not as good of a wording. As always cards try to avoid making players look in the rulebook, which they tend to absolutely never want to do. Many people were consulted on the card wordings, in addition to how fun and balanced they were; this is the result. If I'd had better wordings for any cards they'd have them; if any card didn't seem worth the wording it would get, it didn't make it out.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Dominion Discord, 2022