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Mar 21, 2012 -- 10:04PM, CommanderJim wrote:

Are you referring to the Avacyn using the Helvault because she couldn't kill certain demons? I think what's going on here is just that Avacyn isn't powerful enough to kill these demons, but they can be killed, and Liliana is either powerful enough or just clever enough to kill them. (Perhaps the Veil is what gives her enough power to kill demons.)

I'm not a huge storyline buff, but that's my best answer for your question. Maybe someone else could clarify, was it the Veil that made Liliana powerful enough to kill Kothophed? I might look back at that comic myself.

That's not it. This is a quote from the planeswalker's guide to Innistrad:

The Silver Collar

At first Avacyn ignored this new threat, but as the demons amassed power, she knew she would have to destroy them. One by one she would engage them in battle and defeat them. But each time she did, a new demon would appear shortly thereafter. It soon became apparent that the demons could be killed but would return in a different form, since they were beings created of pure mana. Realizing this, Avacyn decreed that "What cannot be destroyed will be bound," and thus her symbol became a silver collar, which was to be symbolically forged shut around the necks of all demonkind.

Mar 21, 2012 -- 11:30PM, chronego wrote:

I believe the key is the sentence "But each time she did, a new demon would appear shortly thereafter."
The reason Avacyn binds demons is because she cares about there being one less demon free in the world. Liliana only cares about killing a specific demon, Griselbrand. She doesn't care if the mana that created Griselbrand then reforms into a new demon, because that new demon didn't sign the contract with her, Griselbrand did.

Exactly this. Avacyn realised she couldn't rid Innistrad of demons altogether - she could kill individual ones, but new ones just appeared in their place. All Liliana is interested in is killing Griselbrand. If the black mana that he's made by reforms into a different demon, what does she care?

Mar 23, 2012 -- 3:52AM, darcness228 wrote:

I really have to put my money on Thalia opening the Helvault.  They even eluded to it in the article.  When they talked of her "possibly" being able to open it, but chosing to keep it in tact "for now" that's immediately what I thought about.  I definitely think that she is going to realize that she can't fix/defeat/whatever all the chaos that's going on, she will do the only thing she feels she can, and release the contents of the Helvault.  What other option does she really have?  She's got one walker who wants in (Liliana), another who wants to kill the aforementioned (Garruk), and yet another who just wants to figure out what's going on with this whole mess (Sorin).  Honestly what other choice does she have?  I say drastic times lead to drastic measures.  Even if Liliana some how convinces her to do it, I'm betting it will be Thalia.

This whole story has been pretty amazing.  I can't WAIT for the previews to start coming out.  Love every last line of this whole block's flavor.  Huge Kudo's for making me love the story line of magic again for the first time in MANY years.

The promo video pretty much confirms your prediction, though it still leaves a lot of details unclear.