This is a card whose true best use is discarding it to a card that requires a discard as payment
Liliana Vess Sweet ultimate, but to get Liliana Vess to do its thing in a deck without proliferate, you need 5 mana and 4 turns, and Liliana doesn't produce blockers
Think of the type line as three layers: Supertypes (adjectives): legendary, basic, snow, world, ongoing Card types (nouns): creature, land, artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery, planeswalker, battle, plus some specialty ones (like kindred, scheme, plane, dungeon, and more) Subtypes (the specific kind): Elf, Equipment, Forest, Aura, Zombie, etc
Getting back all of one's artifacts and enchantments can be a game-changer even if the deck isn't focused on either
Deviate from this and youll overspend