[M21] Liliana, Waker of the Dead - preview from WotC's twitch stream

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Post by clariwench » 3 years ago

Liliana, Waker of the Dead
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Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Mythic Rare
+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
-3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."
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Post by Krishnath » 3 years ago

Pretty solid iteration of my favorite MTG villainess. Plays very well into her neromancer archetype, both by preemptively removing a potential creature from an opponents hand, killing a creature (even an indestructible one) outright, or by reanimating whatever happens to be in the 'yard. The CC makes her very playable in a variety of formats.
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Post by Guardman » 3 years ago

My big complaint is I was really hoping that the black planeswalker would be Davriel since his War card didn't do a good job of capturing his abilities.

This card is okay. I like the art, but the abilities don't really excite me.

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Post by clariwench » 3 years ago

I hope they reserve Dav's big mythic card for when they decide to feature him in the story again. Brandon Sanderson likely won't write him, but I'm sure someone else could since there's a good baseline for how he should be.

I like the card a lot. This is the power level I enjoy from planeswalkers. Not a huge fan of the Showcase frame, considering how cool Ugin and Teferi's are, but the art is so gorgeous.
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Post by 5colorsrainbow » 3 years ago

Guardman wrote:
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My big complaint is I was really hoping that the black planeswalker would be Davriel since his War card didn't do a good job of capturing his abilities.

This card is okay. I like the art, but the abilities don't really excite me.
I think he's already been planned out for a future set so just need to wait :)

And since *that novel* didn't have set connected this the best way to show Liliana mood post-war on a card.
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Post by Couver » 3 years ago

Guardman wrote:
3 years ago
My big complaint is I was really hoping that the black planeswalker would be Davriel since his War card didn't do a good job of capturing his abilities.

This card is okay. I like the art, but the abilities don't really excite me.
Yeah I was kind of hoping for a new mono B planeswalker or a new version of Davriel. Granted never been a big fan of Liliana lore-wise anyway so maybe that is why. But since we are getting more mono W ones now that Gideon is gone it would be nice to see the same for black.

This is still a good PW though.

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Post by motleyslayer » 3 years ago

part of me wishes the -3 was more of a solid removal but it fits into her ability as a necromancer and goes with her +

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Post by The Fluff » 3 years ago

her facial expression has changed. She looks a lot less evil now.
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Post by RxPhantom » 3 years ago

Her head looks like it was photoshopped on.
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