Rock on, gold dust woman. Dig your (enemies')
graves. Do you know of any decks you have that
like to kill things in a way that almost can't
be stopped? Do you have any copies of a certain
white Titan that (doesn't) need a new friend?
Does the idea of taking out every creature your
opponent plays, because their deck is slightly
slower to start than Liliana, appeal to you?
Yes, she's that good. Be prepared.
Welcome back readers today’s card of the day is
the other powerful planeswalker from Innistrad
the new Liliana. Three mana planeswalkers are
priced to be competitive and have abilities that
match this card is no exception. The forcing
each player to discard a card is symmetrical in
practice but if your dropping a creature to
reanimate or a card with flashback it certainly
won’t feel that way. Making target placer
sacrifice a creature can be an amazing response
to a late game bomb such as if your opponent
tapped out for Consecrated Sphinx or a non grave
titan creature. Finally the ultimate is quite
powerful and should be strategically used. In
standard must decks running black could benefit
from the addition of this card especially the
newly revieived solar flare archetypes. In
extended and modern this is quite powerful as
well and I would expect it to see play in all
sorts of strategies ranging from Solar Flare to
Blue Black control decks. In eternal this has a
chance to see play in decks that can support its
cost and could make full use of its abilities.
In casual and multiplayer this will be a big
target painted on your forehead but all
planeswalkers see a fair amount of casual play
this will be no exception. In limited
straight bomb there is little to nothing to pick
over this card, worth the splash and worth
changing your deck for. Overall Liliana has a
powerful new form that will be a defining
competitive card in standard and other formats.
Today's card of the day is Liliana of the Veil who
has three abilities, three loyalty, and costs a
reasonable three mana. The +1 of each
player discarding a card is nice for a dedicated
Liliana style discard deck or at least can be
somewhat disruptive to an opponent. The
second ability is very nice as just playing her
and having the opponent sacrifice a creature is
an excellent use of three mana, plus leaves her
in play to potentially use her +1 or take an
attack. The -6 may be a bit tricky to pull
off outside of a mono-Black sacrifice theme to
keep the field clear, but the potential for
removing threats, lands, or whatever is
impressive. Overall this planeswalker is
going to be a popular addition to Black decks
for the second effect alone while the others
effects are just a nice bonus.
In Limited this is an easy first pick as
removal, though the double Black is a hindrance,
and should work as a nice beginning for a Black
deck. The other effects may not be as
viable, but are still valuable and worth using.
A Sealed deck may have a harder time playing her
early as two colors are needed, though the two
colors for any opponents allows the ultimate to
remove one with any choice.
