Instead of needing to find a card like Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar, youll always have an engine available
Much of the detail is carried over to the card design, including its gold-coloured tsuba, or guard, and curving angle, which varies across depictions but is never entirely straight (as seen on the left)
Now, there are tokens in the set all over, and this can blow those up immediately, and sometimes that will be good
We need protection or we are literally never going to cast a 10 mana spell with 0 counterspells to protect it
This is in addition to the fact that this Liliana is a perfect answer to Lingering Souls, which is often a stellar card against Deaths Shadow and Grixis Control, and it can come in against the same annoying swarm decks that Izzet Staticaster comes in against