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Search for Azcanta. Detention Sphere. Celestial Colonnade. Flooded Strand. Glacial Fortress. Hallowed Fountain. On Innistrad, Liliana perfected her necromantic skills, preferring the black art of the ghoulcallers over the blue method of stitchers, for which she had no patience. She studied under vampires and liches but, fearing her brother's fate, refused to join them in death to fully master the art.
At some point, she encountered the lord of Innistrad, Sorin Markov. They dueled and Sorin crushed her and pronounced her too weak to be a threat. Then he told her that Innistrad was his and that she best be a civil guest—or he'd find and kill her. Once confident of her abilities, she returned to the ruins of Vess estate in Dominaria, vowing to enact revenge on the mysterious man who tricked her to curse Josu. During the confrontation, the so-called Raven Man escaped.
At some point before the events of Agents of Artifice Liliana was a mage-student at Strixhaven University on Arcavios. She was a student of Witherbloom. She was envious of the fact that he was seemingly unaffected by the mending. He berated her, stating that he had lost more power than she could learn in a dozen lifetimes.
Bolas lamented that only a few years previously, planeswalkers like them were akin to living gods who exerted their power and influence throughout the Multiverse. Bolas then brokered a deal with the four demons who would give Liliana her youth and a fraction of her old power back, in exchange for servitude.
Liliana eventually found her way to Ravnica where she was a resident for some time and often acted as a freelance hire of Tezzeret's Infinite Consortium. She became acquainted with Jace Beleren whom she tracked down after his defection from the Consortium. She befriended the mindmage and his accomplice, Kallist Rhoka , and eventually seduced Jace, having a torrid affair with him. Her loyalty appeared ironclad, staying with Jace even whilst he was in the throes of an identity crisis, believing himself to be Kallist.
However, her motives eventually came to light as less than altruistic. She ultimately betrayed Jace, maneuvering him to fight Tezzeret even as he tried to run further from his troubles. Later, it is revealed that her actions were supported by Nicol Bolas , with whom she had made a bargain to free her of the demonic pact in exchange for control over Tezzeret's usurped organization.
The deal amounted to naught in the end. Several times throughout her plot she considered backing down and running away with Jace, but each time her fear of her demons got the better of her affections for Jace. Kothophed gave Liliana the task to search for an ancient and powerful relic known as the Chain Veil from the ancient ogre civilization of the Onakke upon Shandalar , a plane Liliana had visited before.
Garruk attacked her in the temple after she had located the veil, and tracked her through the hidden tunnels until he was dispatched by the veil-enhanced Liliana. Reveling in the power granted by the Veil, Liliana assaulted a fortress on yet another unnamed plane and conquered it in short order. She then planeswalked to Kothophed 's sanctuary and confronted him. Unbeknownst to her, she was being watched by Sarkhan Vol , who reported her departure with the Veil to Nicol Bolas.
A fight ensued after she refused to relinquish the veil to the demon , and she blew him apart while his words echoed in her mind. She collapsed to her knees afterward in pain as the tattoos that Kothophed himself had given her began to bleed. All throughout Liliana's life, an ominous conspiracy has followed her. From the poison she used to cure Josu to her acquisition of the veil, it was all seemingly orchestrated by the same mysterious figure, a being known only as the Raven Man.
Even when pursuing her own business, she was never far from the veil's influence, unknowingly even being in the same room as the key to the veil's location once before, dispatching an angel sent to protect the world from the artifact's secrets.
After her battle with Kothophed, she sought whatever knowledge she could gain to end the constant bleeding and enduring pain that wracked her body and soul. She returned to the plane of the Onakke and resurrected the body of the wisest man who knew of the Onakke.
However, her desecration earned her the ire of every citizen of the town and they tracked her to a farmhouse and set it on fire with her inside.
Much to Liliana's frustration and surprise, the man she had raised did not act at all like the shambling corpse she expected, going so far as to bodily carry her higher as the fires spread, speaking in cryptic riddles centered around Liliana herself all the while. As the necromancer was about to give up and succumb to her woes, the corpse tilted his hand and revealed his true identity, that of the Raven Man himself. He used a vial of what appeared to be the same potion Liliana had used on Josu, and its golden glow spreads throughout her tattoos, turning them the same color and healing her wounds.
Aware now of the being she had been speaking to, she stabbed him. Donning the veil once more, she planeswalked away. Liliana traveled to Innistrad to deal with another of her demonic masters. However, Griselbrand had gone missing after a duel with the archangel Avacyn , leaving Liliana with the problem of searching for her tormentor if she wished to possess her soul once again.
Unfortunately, she was not the only one hunting, as Garruk had tracked her to the world. He crossed her path once in Nephalia , but she raised a swarm of ghouls to defend herself. He slew all of the undead, but it was enough to allow Liliana to escape.
Her searches then pointed her towards the Church of Avacyn , and she refused to let them stand in her way. That search brought her to the high cathedral of the city of Thraben at the critical moment where an undead army, commanded by Gisa and Geralf , had besieged the city. Geralf killed Mikaeus the Lunarch , the highest official in the Church of Avacyn, and probably one of the few who could tell her where Griselbrand was. With her purpose firmly in mind, she retrieved and resurrected the corpse of the dead lunarch, turning him into a zombie.
Her machinations bore fruit, and she learned the resting place of her prey. Unfortunately, she could do little to free him from the Helvault herself, but she knew of ways around that. She wove a spell upon the Helvault and gave the choice to the Cathar Thalia. The spell would either destroy the vault or kill the soldiers under her command. The choice laid in Thalia's hands, and as Liliana predicted, Thalia chose to save her men. The spell shattered the Helvault, freeing Griselbrand and Avacyn.
Liliana then tracked Griselbrand down, slaughtering both angels and demons alike until she finally cornered him. Griselbrand attempted to bribe her with promises of power, but Liliana saw through his lies and used the Chain Veil to kill Griselbrand once and for all before leaving Innistrad.
Alternate art by Terese Nielsen. After killing Griselbrand, Liliana was besieged by whispers emanating from the Chain Veil itself. Seeking answers, she returned again to Shandalar and journeyed to the Onakke Temple.
Arriving at the ruins, she was confronted by an angel guarding it. Ignoring the angel's pleas and warnings, Liliana killed her. At death's door, the angel mumbled that Liliana was a vessel for the Onakke spirits seeking to release themselves. As she recovered from the after-effects of using the veil, Liliana was beset by a vision of the Onakke civilization in the past and its subsequent destruction. She once again saw the Raven Man who seemed to be the architect of the Onakke's destruction.
As the vision ended Liliana taunted the spirits in the veil about learning a similar civilization-ending spell. The unamused spirits replied in kind. Liliana eventually reached the altar where she originally found the veil. She prepared to return it stating that although she acknowledged its power, she would not trade two masters for a million more. To her shock, her own body refused to heed her and release the veil. In desperation, she animated the skeleton of a dead Onakke and ordered it to carry the veil back to its altar.
The skeleton took the veil but refused to follow her orders. In frustration, she tried to walk away but the skeleton followed. Even canceling the animation spell failed as in its last moments, the skeleton lunged forward and laid the veil on her arm. In her fury, she tried to shut out the returning voices but finally, one voice spoke directly to her with alarming clarity.
Liliana saw another skeleton standing before her. Within seconds, an illusion appeared over it showing the skeleton as belonging to an ancient Onakke.
Furious, Liliana attacked but her spells passed through the spirit. The Onakke referred to her as their vessel and called the chain veil a veil of deceit. He stated that soon Liliana would learn its truths. Tiring of the ogre's taunts, Liliana drew on the veil's power and dissipated the ghost. Pain racked her body as she began to realize that the veil's after-effects were getting more painful and damaging with each use. As she hoped that the curse was finally over, Liliana realized that the veil would still not leave her and the whispers were still there.
Tired, in pain and utterly defeated, Liliana Vess left Shandalar and planeswalked away. Liliana arrived on Ravnica and met with her former lover Jace to persuade him to help her kill her two remaining debtors. Jace was much warier of her and questioned her on her actions in the past few years.
He was furious with her actions on Garruk Wildspeaker and berated her for using the Chain Veil which would try to turn her into a demon. She managed to assuage him and persuaded him to join her for dinner. It was interrupted by the arrival of Gideon Jura who begged Jace for help with the Eldrazi on Zendikar. Liliana of the Veil quantity. Description Details Liliana of the Veil Size — 8. Customer Reviews. Write a Review. Picture 1. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria quantity.
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In fact, it may be the single most defining play in the history of the format over time! The meta changes, cards get banned, new cards facilitate broken new decks, but Karn is always there no matter the year, keeping it real.
Not only did Karn put Tron on the map, but he has essentially kept it in or near the top tear for years and years. Liliana is a very fun card. Most decks capable of consistently producing BB on turn 3 Tendrils of Agony excluded have a strong incentive to play the card on power level alone.
Discard a Lingering Souls in Abzan? Cascade into Liliana with a Bloodbraid Elf? The card is so powerful and efficient and capable of running away with games that it finds its way into a ton of decks.
The true power of the card is that it only costs 3 mana. The card has done nothing but expand its impressive resume in the meantime. Jace needed to be emergency banned from Standard after he turned the format into an absolute joke.
Jace, has since been re-released into the wilderness of Modern and has made his presence known. Jace is, and always has been, a fixture of Eternal Magic. The Azorius love using him as a platform for miracling Terminus and drowning unfortunate opponents in a sea of card advantage.
The Mind Sculptor is still, all these years later, the gold standard for planeswalkers in terms of mana efficiency, raw power, and flexibility.
Did I miss a planeswalker you believe deserved a spot in the top 8 of all time? Let me know in the comments! Another interesting thing to consider….
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