"The Chain Veil:Not Once...But Twice!"

"The Chain Veil:Not Once...But Twice!"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

So now we have a card form of the artifact that Liliana Vess stole before she decided to off her demon masters. The Chain Veil and what a powerful artifact this is turning out to be.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually use a planeswalkers loyalty counters more than once per turn? 

There is actually a way to do it but it involves turning your planeswalker into an artifact and then making them a creature. So yeah , it would be cool to pull off but it would be hard since there are several pieces that need to be in play at the same time. Mycosynth lattice and March of the Machines...

Well with The Chain Veil , a Legendary artifact that costs a measly 4 colorless mana you could activate your superfriends Planeswaker ability twice per turn and it also goes without saying that you put twice as many loyalty counters on them per turn as well.All for 4 colorless mana per activation. So yeah think of the number 8. 4 to cast , 4 to cast the moment it comes in.

Now there are players in Magic who play the Superfriends deck which is basically a collaboration of their favorite planeswalkers. The Chain Veil will fit in into any of the existing Superfriends deck because it does not have a specific mana requirement. Just get to 4 mana and cast. 

Now I would not go into all the different +1 abilities of planeswalkers but it is actually an exciting thought to draw extra cards , kill creatures and kill other planeswalkers. Twice! This advantage with the chain veil extends to each planeswalker you control , each of them could activate an ability one more as if they haven't done so in this particular turn. I mean just imagine killing 2 planeswalkers with Garruk, Apex predator in one turn! Fantastic!

"Twice the killing capacity!"

Now this means 2 different things:

1) One is that you could go and use a Planeswalkers Ultimate ability a turn or two early. 

2) Also it means that when you are in a dire situations like facing two 8/8 Hexproof monsters that are set to finish you off, you could use a (-) planeswalker ability like Liliana of the Veil's (-)2 ability of target player sacrifices a creature.

It means that though your planeswalker may save you it also means that they could die much earlier due to this double activation.

There is a cost in using the veil as well. If you do not have any planeswalker in play( I find it silly that you will not use a planeswalker ability so I just assume that you do not have a planeswalker) or did not use a loyalty ability you lose 2 life. Something that you might not care about in the early games but seem to stack up really fast when you are playing in the mid to late games. If you are not careful you may find that 10 turns later you are dead.

Then again losing that amount of life per turn is a small price to pay to maximize all of the Planeswalkers you have under your command.And if you have at least one of them on your side the damage is sure to be negated. So the best thing is to already have one in play before you get The Chain Veil out. 

So call in all your (super)friends. We have a brand new shiny thing to play with. In the end it is not just Liliana having all the fun.