The lines in her skin matched the menacing light of the storm clouds outside. The etchings in her face were just visible through the Veil. Liliana Vess could almost see her reflection in the spectral-glass vessels where the wires led, and in the latticework of the witchbane orb on the windowsill, and in the conductive tubes that led out the window and up onto the roof. Thin metal wires hung from the points of the Chain Veil. Ever since she quarreled with Jace, Liliana has decided she can only rely on herself to face her demons. Meanwhile, Liliana has been in a tower of Vess Manor, probing the powers-and painful repercussions-of the Chain Veil artifact. □Ĭlick here to read over 4,000 more MTG Cards of the Day! Daily Since 2001.Thanks to Nahiri's machinations, the Eldrazi titan Emrakul has been unleashed on Innistrad. We’d be happy to link back to your blog / YouTube Channel / etc. If you want to share your ideas on cards with other fans, feel free to drop us an email. We would love more volunteers to help us with our Magic the Gathering Card of the Day reviews. While Liliana of the Veil has entrenched herself as a Modern staple, the Last Hope shows up more in Legacy and Vintage for her unique set of talents still, you can do far worse than her in Modern and other formats. While she’s not going to cause jaws to drop, the planeswalkers that have had the longest proverbial legs are the ones that offer incremental, day-to-day advantage over a long game, and Liliana does just that while even attempting to protect herself. And three mana to fish back a creature isn’t so bad, especially since it doesn’t target the creature and so you’ll always hit something as long as you have a graveyard (and you can even use it as a sort of hopeful bit of set-up if you want to). The +1 being her removal option has actually proven itself quite handy, especially with a surfeit of little creatures running around she easily dispatches a lot of mana dorks and can protect herself decently well early. Setting aside her potent ultimate (which is certainly a showstopper), you have your choice of weakening/removal and graveyard recursion/self mill. The second of the three-mana Liliana planeswalkers, Liliana, the Last Hope is an interesting mix of abilities that has actually shown to compare favorably at times to Liliana of the Veil. If you can get it to work even once, you should be ahead – and when it potentially combines setup and recursion, your opponent/s can’t afford to let you make it work more than once. On top of that, a planeswalker that so readily plays into the graveyard-as-resource concept for such a low mana cost is, it seems, just what many decks wanted. Despite the power level of modern (2015 included) creatures, there are still surprisingly many decks which rely on one-toughness creatures she can straight-up kill, and the fact that it lasts a whole turn cycle can mess up combat when things are more evenly matched. Liliana of the Veil is more powerful in a vacuum, yes, but it turns out that the Last Hope fills a different niche. I’m very grateful to James for linking us to the last time we reviewed Liliana, the Last Hope – for one thing, her recent reinvention as a university lecturer is almost as far from her previous modus operandi as a card named “the Vestal Virgin” would be, and for another, I think it’s fascinating how she didn’t end up being completely overshadowed by her other three-mana card.
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