Your opponents will hate seeing you bring this Planeswalker down on turn 3, and that’s a great recommendation to have Liliana of the Veil in your deck. This version of Liliana costs just three mana to cast, two of which must be black. She enters the battlefield with three loyalty counters and has three abilities.
Liliana of the Veil’s first ability adds a loyalty counter, and each player discards a card. As early as turn three, chances are your opponents will be discarding cards they would rather keep. You discard too, but black has so many cards that want to be discarded, from Madness to creatures that can be cast out of the graveyard, you have a lot of choices that mean this ability actually strengthens your position.
The second ability costs two loyalty counters, and target opponent sacrifices a creature. The target of this ability is a player, so it gets around protection from black. Also the effect is sacrifice, which means it can force someone to get rid of their indestructible creature. The opponent you target chooses which creature he or she sacrifices.
The final ability costs six loyalty counters and will spoil someone’s party. You divide all the permanents one opponent controls into two piles. That opponent chooses one pile to save and sacrifices everything in the other pile. You don’t have the make the two piles the same size. This ability allows you to force some hard choices on someone. Just make sure it is you who can capitalise on this player’s sudden weakness!
Verdict: Strong. Liliana of the Veil needs a correctly built black deck, but will shine with the right deck around her. This card has some uses in multicolour decks, especially those that want to use flashback spells.
Connections: Like Liliana of the Veil? You may also like [Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker] [Gideon Jura] [Sorin, Lord of Innistrad]
Don’t like Liliana of the Veil? You may prefer [Venser, the Sojourner] [Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas] [Ajani, Caller of the Pride]
