Gideon Jura's wife. They really do seem like the prefect couple.
drpvfx
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
The first time I read her Ultimate, I was thinking only of creatures, enchantments, and artifacts.
Then I realized the implications of the Emblem in combination with Instants and Sorceries- and honestly, is there anyone out there who wouldn't like to cast Mana Drain, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, Time Walk, or Berserk as many times as they can afford to?
And of course she is no JtMS, but would you really want her to be? She requires some support to really shine, but I think she'll find a home in *several* decks, ousting Jace, Memory Adept from decks that aren't mill-focused, and hopefully restoring some honor to the Blue contingent of Planeswalkers.
TherealphatMatt
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Extremely versatile mix of +1 and -2 abilities. If you can ever get her to ultimate, then wow. Just wow.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is what a planeswalker should be - impressive, tricky to play, with a suitably spectacular ultimate. Regardless of Standard, she will go straight to a lot of Commander decks. And she's a moonfolk!
RJDroid
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0)(11 votes)
-8: You become Alex Bertoncini.
Atogatogatog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like the Lotus Petal combo. This is my favorite art in the set by far. Definitely the card I want to open most at the prerelease.
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
I am the champion of love and justice! In the name of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you!
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
During power creep era her +1 would've been +2, even if the -8 might become -9 or -10. I'm glad it's only +1.
i'm glad they made the ultimate a very good one without basically saying "you win the game", like Elspeth, Knight Errant or Jace, the Mind Sculptor. and the fact that she has the type of abilities that are not used widely in play, yet contribute to getting it off is an example of a good design. she's well rounded, and can give multiple advantages for blue. 4.5/5
djflo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm hoping she doesn't see a lot of play so I can afford some. But I expect she will - she's strong enough that decks will bend around her to take advantage. She's not going to be a 4-of I don't think - she doesn't do enough to advance your game until you use her ultimate - but Planeswalkers probably shouldn't be.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(8 votes)
I think this is the reason why you have to exile Temporal Mastery after you use it.
Juicebox360
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My name is Tamiyo
I AM THE MOONSAGE.
NeoKoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Makes Tome Scour really yummy. At least, her ultimate does.
Purple_Shrimp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
how is its ultimate anything other than "you win the game"
agentvirgo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wait, is this a Kamigawa planeswalker?
SkyyValentine
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I have a dream of getting her ultimate with Mind Over Matter on the field. With one card in hand and one island I will basically have infinite mana and the oppononent will never have an untapped permanent. God forbid the card in hand is a Boomerang or Counterspell. Just discard boomerang twice to untap two lands and then cast it to bounce a permanant and repeat. I mean any spell really. With one island I could use Time Warp to take infinite turns. Her ultimate is the most fun one I've seen yet. Plus she's kinda classy and pretty. Yet to have a really classy girl planeswalker. Looks like she's a book nerd, too. I really hope I get her.
JonTheRed
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
She's obviously not from Innistrad (Kamigawa, maybe?), but immigrants are more than welcome if they're going to bring abilities like those over from other planes.
... Yeah, do you want me to bounce him 10 times, or do you want to just give up?
MagnaLynx21
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Opened her at the pre-release today. Alas, I did not get to play her, but it seems as if the sealed format is way to fast for her to hit the board. :(
Laguz
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
This is probably my favorite card in the set and I really wanted to open it at the prerelease, but i opened a griselbrand instead. Griselbrand is great and all, but it's no Tamiyo. I did lose to a Tamiyo, though. I must have done something wrong in a former life. Perhaps I was a Belieber.
Guest1381794618
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(10 votes)
Casting this from a position of control will win you a game, plain and simple.
So we have the Power Puff Girls AND Sailor Moon in the same set? What is this, Magical Girls Restored?
Negated
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
PRERELEASE WAR STORY: Opened this in my sealed pool. I had a perfectly fine U/W Humans/Angels deck (Herald of War, Angel of Jubilation, other good stuff). It had one Geist Snatch as my only piece of countermagic. The tournament went 5 rounds, I played 14 games. 8 of my game wins, I Ultimated her and proceeded to lock my opponent out with that counterspell.
I usually put her up to 9 loyalty before popping the ultimate, too. A tapper that good is worth an extra turn, especially if you're staring at an upside-down Wolfir Silverheart paired with a Hound of Griselbrand. I had a pumped up Herald of War to block the Silverheart, but had to tap down the hound.
dlgn
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Surprisingly, she works excellently with Tibalt, the Fiendblooded. Her ultimate helps with his +1, and her -2 allows you to deal more damage with his -4. His ultimate and her +1 don't really go particularly well together, but still.
franks1no
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
-8 ability + heartless summoning + perilous myr or any other card that has triggered effects when something enters/goes to graveyard...theres lots of options
Zoah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So combos with her ultimate: Dark Ritual: Unlimited black mana Seething Song: Unlimited red mana Snap: Unlimited bounce Rewind: Unlimited counters Also the text, "sacrifice an X" is replaced by the lowest cost X you have on the field or in hand.
mrhardy12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Her ultimate. What is this I don't even. I mean, I'm a fairly new player (didn't know about Snap until now, etc.), and I already see some AMAZING combo potential with her. Jin-Gitaxis, Core Augur is suddenly a +7 every single turn (assuming you actually have a way to PLAY him...), and Venser's Journal makes her absolutely hilarious in a white/blue control. Outside of Standard, we have Sleep for a MASSIVE draw engine, PLUS getting the bonus of Sleep forcing their creatures to stay tapped for a whole turn. If you're having trouble getting to her "better" effects (granted, a "that card's dangerous, stop it forever" as a +1 is amazing by itself), she's BLUE. Think what we have in the Phyrexian BLUE cards: LOTS of Proliferate. Tezzeret's Gambit, Fuel for the Cause, Inexorable Tide (which combos SO well with her ultimate that it's scary), Steady Progress, Thrummingbird, and Viral Drake WITHOUT including colorless cards like the Contagions. This card can and will quickly become a staple in any blue deck. I can almost guarantee that.
evol4276
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Really excited for this one. Had her in the prerelease, and mopped up with her. Her +1 mini-sleep is a beautiful thing, if you ask me.
Feralsymphony
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I wonder what the people of Innistrad think of her. Moonfolk aren't exactly common on the plane, you know.
As for the card? Love it. A fun and funny blue planeswalker. Her +1 is effective without being overly powerful, her -2 makes your opponent think twice about attacking, and if you hit ultimate? Shenanigans abound.
She is why I play Magic. She's fun, pure and simple. I really hope no one breaks her and makes her impossible for me to afford, I'd love to run a copy or two of her.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Gideon Jura has finally found his soulmate... besides his... erm, "assistants"
It annoys me that a lot of the top rated comments are often the most useless.
Post Playtesting thought: Her -2 looks very situational on paper. In reality, most of the scariest creaures are 1 of's or 1/1 flyers (save delver). Her -2, as I said below, is a "free draw" because it does not cost mana to use turns after she has come out. and with that, it is not unlikely, at least I have found, for ther -2 to end up being 3 or so cards.
Anyway, her ultimate should seldom be taken into consideration, for exactly the same reason that no other planeswalkers ultimate abilities should (baring those like Karn, with a +4)
Her +1 is something to be feared, because at WORST, it sets your opponent back a land, more if there is a better mana producer on the field. It locks down fields of single creatures that are just mean (see titans), wurmcoil engine will lose its lifelink if it is always tapped, hellrider wont be swinging very hard it is tapped (though hellrider does suggest a bigger board presence anyway, so a less effective point)
Unlike ajani vengent, her +1 actually does lock things down. And that continuous "freeze" effect is something that is very valuable to control.
her -2 replenishes your options. When you can draw even 1 card without being taxes mana, you have made a drastic increase in your overall speed of gameplay. Think twice is used not because it is drawing deep, but because you dont have to risk depleting your mana before casting your spells. Concentrate costs 4 mana to play and is a sorcery, and though its 4 mana for 3 cards, i still prefer think twice ("5" mana for 2) because I can chose to use a counterspell or think twice, not one of the other. Tamiyo's -2 says that the next turn after she comes out, her -2 is likely at least 1 card without taxing your mana, and that is powerful. Being able to play the card you just drew is mind boggling, and a definite advantage in all decks that draw.
her -8 is exploitable, we all know it, there is no need to get into it. When all your spells have buyback 0 and you have no maximum hand size, the only thing that scares you is a sword of war and Peace.
Espergeist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Blue/White Spirits = best control ever in block...
Niblis of mist On entering; tap Niblis of breath pay man; tap Niblis of the urn when it attacks; tap add in her +1 and ulti and my choice game wrecker Strumgeist and gg
ThePantsAreDead
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I played against a guy who pulled this in a release day booster draft. He got it on the battlefield on turn 5. Twice. Minds were blown.
swords_to_exile
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(14 votes)
This is what I like to see as a Planeswalker. She's very good, but costs enough to not warp the metagame around her.
The +1 ability is great, and since she can protect herself, I think she'll see decent play in control and maybe midrange decks that run blue.
The -2 is strong, and can be used 2 turn in a row right away if she survives. Imagine drawing 3 or 4 cards per turn with it. Not too difficult to set us with Lingering Souls or the new Entreat the Angels.
And for the finisher, I won't say how good it is, just list some great cards to use with it that might not be obvious. Tome Scour: Draw 5 for U. Time Warp: Take infinite turns. (kinda obvious I guess) Wild Cantor: Infinite Storm count into Grapeshot Fauna Shaman: Don't worry about whatever you just discarded. Giant Growth: Massive pump.
She's not as broken as Jace, the Mind Sculptor was and is, but if she can be protected, she will win you games.
gongshowninja
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Pulled off her ultimate in an EDH game tonight, after drawing about 5 cards and tapping down an enemy Vish Kal. Very solid planeswalker, highly recommended.
Paladin85
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Looks very similar to Soratami folk from Kamigawa
The ultimate ability is basically game over for your opponent, only exile effects would remove cards and your only limitation is your mana pool
Somebody in my prerelease pulled one of these and a foil one of these from the same pack.
GengilOrbios
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
This card is strongly underrated and I'll tell you why. People tend to think this is a "meh" planeswalker, better than Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, but worse than the other Innistrad block walkers like Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and the like. I do think, Tamiyo might be the best planeswalker of this block. She could even be the new Jace, the Mind sculptor or, at least, a fixed version of him. But let's take a closer look at the card: The mana cost of 3UU is fairly high, but still playable in control decks, in which she will definetely see most play. She enters the field with 4 loyalty counters, which is pretty much. People will hardly be able to kill her in one single attack. With her first ability, she can even protect herself from attackers! Or, you can uise the +1 to tap your opponent's lands. It strongly reminds me of Ajani Vengeant, although it's even better. (And Ajani did see play a lot!) Her second ability is probably her best. It allows you to draw a huge amount of cards the same turn she enters the field. Remember: You can also target yourself with her ability, so you can draw cards after your attack. I can see Tamiyo in a Faerie deck with bitterblossom where you often attack with 5 or even more tokens. Her last ability is just icing. Infinite Counterspells/Removals, Mill protection etc. It's nowhere as good as Jace's ultimate, but it does help you win the game. So, overall I think Tamiyo is one of the strongest Planeswalkers ever printed. She surely is stronger than the entire Lorwyn cycle and might be the 2nd best blue Planeswalker ever (just after JTMS).
Alabasterds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
CACA
LordofLiege
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So my buddy and I were both buying booster boxes. I really wanted Tibalt and he really wanted her. I told him I'd likely give him her for Tibalt or something else. That was till I read her card. I slapped her right into my black/blue proliferate deck and proceeded to win at life.
Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is that if you lose her for casting her ultimate she goes back to your hand and becomes a drawing machine for you. I mean correct me if I'm wrong
KokoshoForPresident
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I was so excited for this planeswalker, and when I got one at the prerelease, it made my day. I'm honored, Mistress Tamiyo, that I own a copy of your card.
I was going to make a list of cards I thought her ultimate ability could combo with. Then I figured I would have to type the name of every Magic: the Gathering card that does something good, and that would have me here for all eternity.
So I just thought I'd mention that with any card like seething song or dark ritual, you get infinite mana. And you can do a lot with infinite mana.
@LordofLiege, no, she doesn't go back to your hand. Check the rulings. But she's still amazing.
LlanowarEmissary
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Pick up your cheap ($25) copies of this card while you can, folks. She's outstanding for mid-range and control decks and she'll likely see heavy play in Standard while she's legal.
Having Frost Titan's ETB effect as a +1 is pretty fantastic. Her -2 ability is fueled by the +1 and is a source of repeatable card draw. Her ultimate is just bonkers.
As others have mentioned, this card is like a less-broken incarnation of Jace, the Mind Sculptor. I'm certainly going to get a lot of use out of it in my EDH deck.
i drafted her at a release tournament among 3 boosters. lmao my friends were so jealous XD i slipped her into my monoblue counter deck haha
Judgemaster_Rolan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ooo...a Planeswalker for my Niv-Mizzet deck, and its Empyrial Plate!
DaMaster012
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I once had an idea for a combo that could be put into a spell-slinger deck that utilized Call to Mind and Cast Through Time to keep my hand stocked with all the instants and sorceries I'd ever need.
As shaky a combo-idea as that was, only now that I'm looking at this right now do I realize how obsolete and absurd that idea was.
You gotta love Planeswalkers that not only have abilities that synergize with each other, but who can protect themselves at the same time. Her first ability can help lock down the board for you along with all that other crap blue has that keeps your opponents stuff tapped out, i.e. Gigadrowse, Frost Breath, Frost Titan (and for some real shenanigans, Sleep) and etcetera, and her second ability turns all that control into easy card advantage. (Not as easy or as OP as Consecrated Sphinx, but then we're talking about the single most broken form of permanent card advantage ever printed.)
Pulling off her ultimate is unlikely due to it's cost, low increase from her plus ability, and aggro she'll generate, but with enough control I don't think it's completely unlikely. I don't think I have to mention how powerful her final is. That emblem gives you such stupid easy recursion that it would make my younger brother, who owns two Debtor's Knell's, facepalm. Pretty much guarantee your opponents that they'll never be able to keep your permanents off the board, a supply of instants and sorceries limited only by your mana capabilities, and don't even get me started on what you could do if you owned her, her emblem, and a Force of Will...
This is the first Planeswalker I've ever truly seen, thought of my Izzet deck, then thought; "I want that." Though I'll admit, that's only because nobody knows what Ral Zarek 's abilities are yet. (But whatever he does, I want him, too.) Though she's better suited for a mono-blue control deck, having her to slow down an opponent and speed myself up (and have an unlimited supply of Electrolyzes, Lightning Bolts, Pongifys and Counterspell in the rare event her final goes off) strikes me as nothing short of a boon in any instance.
And I'll eat my big pre-release promo card of Blossom served with a sauce made from my Griselbrand if that artwork doesn't scream; "Tamiyo is from Kamagowa"
4.5 out of 5 for utility, effectiveness, and moderate splashability, but minimal counter gain and an ultimate that's more like a nice wish than a feasible possibility.
MANABURNWASGOOD
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ mechakraken, it means exactly what it says.
If you play a spell during your opponents main phase, at the beginning of their end step you do what you're told to do. If you perform the action at the end of their turn, at your end step you do it.
mdakw576
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
tamiyo has very strong effects, but remember, 4 mana -> 5 mana is a big jump. That's 1 more turn where the 4 mana walker could use an ability, and 1 more turn for the opponent to play something else to threaten your walker.
I think she's a good threat in control mirrors that tend to rely on 1-2 fat creatures where tamiyo can lock them down, and since control games last long, she might actually reach ultimate. Against aggro she should probably be boarded out. Drawing a bunch of cards against tapped weenies is nice, but I would rather be playing a board sweeper or else I'm dead in 1-2 turns (especially if you're staring down a sword of war and peace). I suppose gideon + tamiyo could work, assuming you drop gideon the turn before and +2, hope he survives, next turn drop tamiyo and draw cards, then gideon +2's again. This might not work in reality though.
MusicalMikus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Her ultimate + undying zombies = almost endless hoard of zombies. Dies, let it go to the graveyard to come back with undying. Dies again, bring it back to your hand. Repeat the process.
YariMatthews
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For those wondering of her background, she is a Sarotami (Moonfolk) from Kamigawa. This actually has me hoping for a return to Kamigawa. Love the card but it's a bit costly to get out and will be difficult to protect until it is strong. Still if you can do it I feel bad for the person sitting at the other end of that table for she is absolutely terrifying with those blue take another turn cards.
DodgeRoebuck
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
After getting the emblem, if you use Foil and you have an island and another card in your hand, it is an endless counterspell. Because everything will return to your hand and you can smile from there.
Kelptic183
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
She has a crazy amount of synergy going with Gideon Jura. Use her +1 and Gideon's -2 to kill any creature, or use Gideon's +2 to tap all of their creatures and then draw a bunch of cards.
Himborg
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Finally some Soratami love. Maybe Wizards felt bad for making them so awkward back in Kamigawa? XD
I like her. A balance of control and card advantage, and not a single land-bouncing mechanic in sight. 5/5
Reversed
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I've had so much fun playing Tamiyo. Her +1 is enough to swing a lot of games my way, either by keeping a threat from attacking or blocking, or by messing up my opponent's mana base. Still, I'm not going to lie. The reason I love the card so much is that her ultimate is just really, really cool. As a lot of people have said, there are many ways to end the game after getting the Tamiyo emblem out. Here's one I haven't seen yet:
The reason I like Tamiyo the most (other than the fact that she's full of more flavor than a mexican fajita), is because her ultimate, while certainly a win-condition in any right, is the first ultimate that actually allows the PLAYER to decide how he/she wants to win. Do you want to dark ritual infinitely and use that to kill them? Do you want to just keep your opponent locked down with counterspells? Do you want to kill them with many uses of lightning bolt? Its the first ultimate that pleases the Johnny player in the game, and that's something I can respect. 5/5 Tamiyo, you're amazing.
zombieord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I had never preordered a card before Tamiyo. I can't say I'm disappointed, she's everything I thought she could be.
I've been playing her in an Esper tapout deck with Gideon and Lingering Souls. Lingering Souls buys you time and interacts well with her -2. Gideon turns dudes sideways and then you draw even more.
I have drawn 17 cards in 1 turn off her -2 ability. My opponent cast Spider Spawning into my Gideon. After flashing it back and with my Gideon at 1 loyalty I cast Tamiyo. The next turn I shrugged off my dead Gideon as I proceeded to draw 17. Needles to say, I found the wrath I needed and then some.
As others have said, her ultimate is insane but does not immediately end the game. I did have an opponent concede when I showed them my hand of Day of Judgment and Mana Leak with her emblem in play, however.
arise_shine
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Love this card! Tamiyo is such a beautiful, interesting character, and everything about this card captures her perfectly--her abilities, artwork, etc.
So, the card itself from a purely Melvin (mechanical) perspective is pretty alright too! I've had some good luck with her in my control deck so far. Her +1 can tap down their big threat. Or, if they're swarming with little dudes, then I can use her -2 to dig for a sweeper.
Of course her ultimate is nuts. There are any number of crazily awesome things that can be done with it (infinite counterspells, board sweepers, kill spells, Lingering Souls, card draw, etc.), but you really can't count on that happening. And watch out for Zealous Conscr-ipts if/when you get her to 8! :O
raptorman333
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
oh hello again kamigawa's soratami.
ps. that emblem is ridiculous, no wonder it's cost is -8. makes it much easier to pull off the infinite time warp combo that i've been doing with my charmbreaker devils.
TheManakinTransfer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good now that all the colours have multiple copies of the mono coloured planeswalkers, can we finally get our asses back to Ravinca and finish up on the multicoloured PW's? C'mon Niv, I know you have the spark no matter how well you hide it.
Appleseed000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm not sure if it's been said, but Zombie Infestation with the emblem would be pretty lulzy. I'll just discard these 2 cards until I have 38490384938921 zombies
MechaKraken
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm looking forward to seeing her in a future kamigawa set. It's really awesome how Wizards put her in Innistrad to remind us of the other planes that exist =)
sn1perhawk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One Question.
I have tamiyo with the ultimate done , and one mana leak in my hand,the other player cast one spell and i responde with mana leak and that player pays the mana leak.
Can i play again the same mana leak or the opponent spell resolves ?
Thank you in advance.
atemu1234
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Ooo-kay... Since when did Buried Alive become a self-contained triple-Tutor? Avacyn Restored. Where else?
Miklzry
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If they ever go back to Kamigawa (which they hopefully wouldn't screw up as much as Mirrodin) she is definitely a moonfolk and there will definitely be another one of her. Aside from my fixation with story line, this card is pretty awesome with some kamigawan cards like Soramaro, First to Dream or Masumaro, First to Live, certain kamis like kami of the crescent moon and the moonfolk and patron of the moon
SyntheticDreamer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Well, this just got even more ridiculous with the return of Rewind. Good luck getting anything to resolve if she ever goes ultimate.
kitty_kitty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I am confused as why the rulings state that tamiyo with 8 loyalty counters activates -8 power specifically goes to graveyard with no posibility of going to your hand instead
based on; rule 704.4: game state changes arn't triggered during stack resolution. rule 704.5i: state change check for planeswalker with 0 loyalty counters gets sent to owners graveyard. tamiyo's emblem: if a card is placed in your graveyard from anyewhere you may have it returned to your hand instead
so my question is, is she being removed as the ability is placed on the stack as her casting cost is paid (-8 loyalty) ?
and even if this is the case wouldn't the game wait to check state till after said stack item was resolved?
ZirilanoftheClaw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
her ultimate sets off so many infinites, heck even just lotus petal and her first 2 are amazing in lockdown
TrueKitsonga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow, Eric Deschamps' art is always so hit-and-miss. If it's good, it's REALLY good, like this one... and if it's bad, it's utterly TERRIBLE (see Captivating Vampire and Koth of the Hammer from Duel Decks).
LoZoS
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
just putting this here for some confused players: 5/1/2012: Tamiyo's first ability tracks the permanent, but not its controller. If the permanent changes controllers before its first controller's next untap step has come around, then it won't untap during its new controller's next untap step. 5/1/2012: The number of tapped creatures the player controls is determined when Tamiyo's second ability resolves. 5/1/2012: Tamiyo's third ability creates one emblem with two abilities. 5/1/2012: If you activate Tamiyo's third ability when she has eight loyalty counters on her, she'll be put into your graveyard before the emblem is created. She won't return to your hand. 5/1/2012: Cards that are put into your graveyard can be returned to your hand by the emblem's ability even if they were never in your hand.
With Tamiyo's first ability that taps a target permanent. Can she tap other planeswalkers since they are permanents, and would the planeswalker be able to use their ability's since you are adding and subtracting counters?
Bobth
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Lol @ LlanowarEmissary. She's $15 now. Sorry about your wasted money. Everyone's listing combos with her ultimate... but does her ultimate really matter? She starts at 4 loyalty and needs 8, with only a +1. Most planeswalkers' ultimates will win you the game, however cool hers may be. I still like the card and will rate it a 4/5, but damn people are overestimating this for competitive play.
Mr.MagicJohnson32
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I heard that Jace got Tamiyo knocked up, but he mana leaked the baby. She was all "Jace, I'm Pregnant", and Jace was like "Doesn't Resolve".
Dabok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Valyant "Tamiyo + Omniscience!
Cast ANY spell in your hand INFINITELY!!!!"
Overkill...INFINITELY!!!
Drayconis
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love this card, put her in my Blue/White deck alongside Jace, and a 6 man FFA, was a blast.
JacEntreri
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love when i can use this emblem and have out Talrand, the Sky Summoner and play twiddle infinitely for infinite drakes, or use Jace, Memory Adept to draw ten cards a turn.
Xycolian
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Her second ability works well with the RTR card Blustersquall.
Cheap overload on Blustersquall makes this an easily achievable combo, so you don't take damage for a turn while simultaneously drawing more answers to the opponents creatures that you are tapping.
gman92
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
She is my favorite card in Avacyn restored. An incredibly good Blue planeswalker; not as good as Jace, the Mind Sculptor, but better, in my opinion, than Jace, Memory Adept. Pretty too. 10/10 and 5/5.
The +1 isn't strong enough in my opinion. Five mana for a Detain isn't that good. I do think this planeswalker does need to be built around to be really good. Jace is more utility than this one.
I'm fairly sure her ultimate combos with more things than any other ability in magic.
SiliconMagus
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Use her +1 ability to tap down your Gilder Bairn, and then activate its ability to put Tamiyo at 10 loyalty counters. Next turn, if you protect her, you pop her ultimate. Good times.
Now You're All set up! 1. Tap Silver Myr for . 2. Play Twiddle. 3. Untap Silver Myr. 4. Add counter and deal one damage to opponent. 5. Twiddle returns to you hand and you repeat from 1 until all opponents are dead!
RunedServitor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great planeswalker, but she should have had some ability that forced or allowed you to return lands to your hand, just to keep the Moonfolk flavor alive. I suppose you can't have everything.
She fits so well, flavor and ability wise, in a Soramaro, First to Dream deck. She looks like she's straight out of the Kamigawa block.
Cyanide17
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
My God, she's lovely. The epitome of blue and a synergistic little box of tricks. Probably my favourite walker.
surewhynot
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
She's good in a wide variety of blue control decks, but her true home really is in Tap-based decks. Her abilities compliment each other so well, but not in such a way that she plays the game for you like Jace did.
Interesting side note, have gotten her -8 off a few times, and some personal favorites include Sleep and Supreme Verdict.
Continue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
To quote Iktomi on Toshiro Umezawa: "Death triggers giving things flashback? This card would love an Innistrad block reprint. Too bad there's no way to fit a Kamigawa legend in flavor wise." Hard to believe that you were actually wrong in a way.
For everybody who says that planeswalker abilities are not achievable, this is sometimes not true. In the case of tamiyo, it is completely untrue. What deck uses tapping significantly? That's right, tempo decks. In a tempo deck, people are realistically going to be unable to attack effectively, so she is unlikely to take any hits. I know this because, last time I was at FNM, I did that three times, twice in one round, once in another. The tapping is immensely useful, and the card draw just begs to be used with sleep. Using her with creatures with vigilance, you can tap their fatties, attack with your creatures, get past their weenies, and still be able to defend her. I used Serra Avenger mostly for this, and I found it to be very effective.
Nothing like infinitely casting sleep to keep everything tapped forever.
5/5
GhostCounselor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pure fan service throwing her in Innistrad, but unlike Tibalt, she actually does useful stuff. Very good for a blue/white control deck. Saves you a lot of hassle.
Keep this in mind when playing her. 1: Her ultimate is good, but you need to provide the ammo itself. she just makes it renewable.
2: Some cards completely change their meanings if you use them with her. For example, Tome Scour turns into a draw 5 for U. thats insane.
3:don't be afraid to use her -2 ability. If you can stop their big assault, you can use it, draw a lot, and immediately prepare for the next attack.
4: This card can turn counter decks into absolute nightmares, especially if they have Rewind.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I have a hunch that Tamiyo WOULD have appeared in the canceled Innistrad novel. As a narrator/commentator. A 2-4 page discourse on some aspect of lunar influence in Innistrad before each major section, and a paragraph at the beginning of each chapter. She was cast in her introduction as being a detached observer, and just offering prologue, commentary, and Sequel Hook-compatible epilogue would suit that just fine.
whoiam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What is she doing in Innistrad? I think after Theros block we're going to gave "Return to Kamigawa" :)
Kryptnyt
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
When in doubt, pinky out
Winhert
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can't build a deck around her, y'say? Well... turbofog alt-win-con? :)
It's funny, but even despite the obvious ridiculousness with this gal people were still hoping that they'd repring Doubling Season.
TowerDefender
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Doesn't Rest in Peace annihilate her ultimate, assuming it ever gets onto the field vs control, or manages to stay there. Exiling cards that would go to the GY! Doesn't help with the no maximum hand size though. Great PW
Not only is everything infinitely castable, but you can cast anything in Magic. So let's review, you can counter anything with Time Stop, even things that normally couldn't; you cannot be killed because of Angel's Grace; and to top it all off you can grab any number of cards from outside the game (Pull from eternity will keep Death Wish coming back). And everything casts at instant speed, just in case.
That should actually give you unlimited possibilities. I can't think of anything that your opponent can do to stop you...
Manite
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Has anyone realized how scary Tamiyo's emblem is with Gifts Ungiven? Not only do you get Gifts back but also the two cards that would otherwise have gone to the graveyard. With Tami's emblem Gifts becomes a reusable four card tutor!
Be fun to see how many Kamigawa cards she plays with.
ShatterPalm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combine her emblem with Venser, the Sojourner's and infinite mana combination of your choice to exile every permanent your opponents control.
And that's just the beginning.
ProfCharles
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I was messing around with my casual merfolk deck the other day, and I discovered a infinite blue mana + 2Xinfinite blue merfolk wizard creature token combo.
First, you need Tamiyo's emblem, three Stonybrook Bannerets, a Merrrow Reejerey and an Azorious Chancery on the battlefield.
Tap the Chancery for WU. Spend W to cast Summon the School. Tamiyo's emblem returns it to your hand, and because you cast a merfolk spell, the Reejerey untaps your Chancery. You now have 1 blue mana, 2 merfolk tokens and an untapped Chancery. Repeat until your opponent conceeds.
A little awkward to pull off, but it will be epic when you do.
Also, does Tamiyo remind anyone else of Desmond the Moon Bear?
Doubling Season Pop her ult, goes back to your hand.
Hows that for cool?
MrSunso
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Overload Blustersquall against a white weenie deck and have fun!
realitant
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Demonic_Math_Tutor Actually no. the -8 is part of the cost. Tamiyo is put into the graveyard before the emblem is created. I think there's a ruling for that actually
Toquinha1977
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
She's the desktop wallpaper on my computer at work, which is obviously closer to the size of the canvas than what you'd get on a card, and I just can't help but wonder...what's up with her head? I took a look at other Kamigawa block moonfolk cards, and they appear to be have mostly humanoid features, except for the white skin and hair. Tamiyo has flaps of skin that start at her forehead and hang down the back of her head. I understand that the moonfolk are supposed to be evocative of rabbits of Japanese folklore, but are those supposed to be her ears?
That aside, I had her in a Turbo Fog Standard deck. Getting the ultimate off takes work, but once you're done, there isn't much your opponent can do when you can just reuse the same counterspells over and over.
Of all the planeswalkers, this is the one whose story I want to know.
BUT THERE'S NO BLOOMIN' FLAVOR! WHAT AAAAARE YOU!? WHERE DO YOU COME FROM!? WHAT'S YOU'RE FAVORITE COLOR, DAMNIT! I WANT TO KNOW YOUR STORY! (P.S. I know she's a Moonfolk from Kamigawa)
Even unsummon becomes a potent force with her ultimate!
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I hope Tamiyo becomes Blue's planeswalker for M15. I think I speak for us all when I say I'm getting mighty tired of seeing Jace's emo, anime-haired mug in every core set.
Quotations
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i really would love a tamiyo return, lets face it. if this girl likes science, take her to theros, wouldn't you try sucking up to a water god for some infinite knowledge?
Dash13
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This Planeswalker needs a book and more lore.
As much as I like mill and illusion decks, I'm tired of seeing Jace the mind douche as the poster boy of blue.
I just decided that this was my favourite of all the planeswalkers. Decent loyalty, all her abilities are good, she's versatile, her ultimate is insane without being just dumb (JtMS), and the artwork is beautiful.
There have been heaps of suggestions for combos with the ultimate, and some of them are cool (DREAM HALLS!!!!). Anyways, heres mine - lotleth troll. Not exactly on colour but meh, infinite trample damage that can be done as a combat trick is definitely a thing.
D1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Here's another combo that you can use her ultimate for: mill cards!
Assuming you've got four Islands and four Swamps on the battlefield,
Not only that, but you can do this again the next turn!
cotf1692
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Phenax, God of Deceit can turn all of your creatures into an insane draw engine. If your defenses are good enough you might as well just dig for a Laboratory Maniac
Rifts980
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
probably has a pet masticore, for studyin purposes. Also murder.
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I was thinking only of creatures, enchantments, and artifacts.
Then I realized the implications of the Emblem in combination with Instants and Sorceries-
and honestly, is there anyone out there who wouldn't like to cast Mana Drain, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, Time Walk, or Berserk as many times as they can afford to?
And of course she is no JtMS, but would you really want her to be?
She requires some support to really shine, but I think she'll find a home in *several* decks,
ousting Jace, Memory Adept from decks that aren't mill-focused,
and hopefully restoring some honor to the Blue contingent of Planeswalkers.
this thing is gonna be SO HARD to beat if you can pop her ultimate!
and the fact that she has the type of abilities that are not used widely in play, yet contribute to getting it off is an example of a good design. she's well rounded, and can give multiple advantages for blue. 4.5/5
I
AM
THE MOONSAGE.
Heartless Summoning, Perilous Myr.
... Yeah, do you want me to bounce him 10 times, or do you want to just give up?
Keep an eye on this one, folks.
I usually put her up to 9 loyalty before popping the ultimate, too. A tapper that good is worth an extra turn, especially if you're staring at an upside-down Wolfir Silverheart paired with a Hound of Griselbrand. I had a pumped up Herald of War to block the Silverheart, but had to tap down the hound.
or any other card that has triggered effects when something enters/goes to graveyard...theres lots of options
Dark Ritual: Unlimited black mana
Seething Song: Unlimited red mana
Snap: Unlimited bounce
Rewind: Unlimited counters
Also the text, "sacrifice an X" is replaced by the lowest cost X you have on the field or in hand.
As for the card? Love it. A fun and funny blue planeswalker. Her +1 is effective without being overly powerful, her -2 makes your opponent think twice about attacking, and if you hit ultimate? Shenanigans abound.
She is why I play Magic. She's fun, pure and simple. I really hope no one breaks her and makes her impossible for me to afford, I'd love to run a copy or two of her.
"Show up...
...in the wrong plane"
Post Playtesting thought: Her -2 looks very situational on paper. In reality, most of the scariest creaures are 1 of's or 1/1 flyers (save delver). Her -2, as I said below, is a "free draw" because it does not cost mana to use turns after she has come out. and with that, it is not unlikely, at least I have found, for ther -2 to end up being 3 or so cards.
Anyway, her ultimate should seldom be taken into consideration, for exactly the same reason that no other planeswalkers ultimate abilities should (baring those like Karn, with a +4)
Her +1 is something to be feared, because at WORST, it sets your opponent back a land, more if there is a better mana producer on the field. It locks down fields of single creatures that are just mean (see titans), wurmcoil engine will lose its lifelink if it is always tapped, hellrider wont be swinging very hard it is tapped (though hellrider does suggest a bigger board presence anyway, so a less effective point)
Unlike ajani vengent, her +1 actually does lock things down. And that continuous "freeze" effect is something that is very valuable to control.
her -2 replenishes your options. When you can draw even 1 card without being taxes mana, you have made a drastic increase in your overall speed of gameplay. Think twice is used not because it is drawing deep, but because you dont have to risk depleting your mana before casting your spells. Concentrate costs 4 mana to play and is a sorcery, and though its 4 mana for 3 cards, i still prefer think twice ("5" mana for 2) because I can chose to use a counterspell or think twice, not one of the other. Tamiyo's -2 says that the next turn after she comes out, her -2 is likely at least 1 card without taxing your mana, and that is powerful. Being able to play the card you just drew is mind boggling, and a definite advantage in all decks that draw.
her -8 is exploitable, we all know it, there is no need to get into it. When all your spells have buyback 0 and you have no maximum hand size, the only thing that scares you is a sword of war and Peace.
Niblis of mist On entering; tap
Niblis of breath pay man; tap
Niblis of the urn when it attacks; tap
add in her +1 and ulti and my choice game wrecker Strumgeist and gg
The +1 ability is great, and since she can protect herself, I think she'll see decent play in control and maybe midrange decks that run blue.
The -2 is strong, and can be used 2 turn in a row right away if she survives. Imagine drawing 3 or 4 cards per turn with it. Not too difficult to set us with Lingering Souls or the new Entreat the Angels.
And for the finisher, I won't say how good it is, just list some great cards to use with it that might not be obvious.
Tome Scour: Draw 5 for U.
Time Warp: Take infinite turns. (kinda obvious I guess)
Wild Cantor: Infinite Storm count into Grapeshot
Fauna Shaman: Don't worry about whatever you just discarded.
Giant Growth: Massive pump.
She's not as broken as Jace, the Mind Sculptor was and is, but if she can be protected, she will win you games.
The ultimate ability is basically game over for your opponent, only exile effects would remove cards and your only limitation is your mana pool
People tend to think this is a "meh" planeswalker, better than Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, but worse than the other Innistrad block walkers like Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and the like. I do think, Tamiyo might be the best planeswalker of this block. She could even be the new Jace, the Mind sculptor or, at least, a fixed version of him.
But let's take a closer look at the card: The mana cost of 3UU is fairly high, but still playable in control decks, in which she will definetely see most play.
She enters the field with 4 loyalty counters, which is pretty much. People will hardly be able to kill her in one single attack.
With her first ability, she can even protect herself from attackers! Or, you can uise the +1 to tap your opponent's lands. It strongly reminds me of Ajani Vengeant, although it's even better. (And Ajani did see play a lot!)
Her second ability is probably her best. It allows you to draw a huge amount of cards the same turn she enters the field. Remember: You can also target yourself with her ability, so you can draw cards after your attack. I can see Tamiyo in a Faerie deck with bitterblossom where you often attack with 5 or even more tokens.
Her last ability is just icing. Infinite Counterspells/Removals, Mill protection etc. It's nowhere as good as Jace's ultimate, but it does help you win the game.
So, overall I think Tamiyo is one of the strongest Planeswalkers ever printed. She surely is stronger than the entire Lorwyn cycle and might be the 2nd best blue Planeswalker ever (just after JTMS).
Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is that if you lose her for casting her ultimate she goes back to your hand and becomes a drawing machine for you. I mean correct me if I'm wrong
I was going to make a list of cards I thought her ultimate ability could combo with. Then I figured I would have to type the name of every Magic: the Gathering card that does something good, and that would have me here for all eternity.
So I just thought I'd mention that with any card like seething song or dark ritual, you get infinite mana. And you can do a lot with infinite mana.
@LordofLiege, no, she doesn't go back to your hand. Check the rulings. But she's still amazing.
Having Frost Titan's ETB effect as a +1 is pretty fantastic. Her -2 ability is fueled by the +1 and is a source of repeatable card draw. Her ultimate is just bonkers.
As others have mentioned, this card is like a less-broken incarnation of Jace, the Mind Sculptor. I'm certainly going to get a lot of use out of it in my EDH deck.
5/5
As shaky a combo-idea as that was, only now that I'm looking at this right now do I realize how obsolete and absurd that idea was.
You gotta love Planeswalkers that not only have abilities that synergize with each other, but who can protect themselves at the same time. Her first ability can help lock down the board for you along with all that other crap blue has that keeps your opponents stuff tapped out, i.e. Gigadrowse, Frost Breath, Frost Titan (and for some real shenanigans, Sleep) and etcetera, and her second ability turns all that control into easy card advantage. (Not as easy or as OP as Consecrated Sphinx, but then we're talking about the single most broken form of permanent card advantage ever printed.)
Pulling off her ultimate is unlikely due to it's cost, low increase from her plus ability, and aggro she'll generate, but with enough control I don't think it's completely unlikely. I don't think I have to mention how powerful her final is. That emblem gives you such stupid easy recursion that it would make my younger brother, who owns two Debtor's Knell's, facepalm. Pretty much guarantee your opponents that they'll never be able to keep your permanents off the board, a supply of instants and sorceries limited only by your mana capabilities, and don't even get me started on what you could do if you owned her, her emblem, and a Force of Will...
This is the first Planeswalker I've ever truly seen, thought of my Izzet deck, then thought; "I want that." Though I'll admit, that's only because nobody knows what Ral Zarek 's abilities are yet. (But whatever he does, I want him, too.) Though she's better suited for a mono-blue control deck, having her to slow down an opponent and speed myself up (and have an unlimited supply of Electrolyzes, Lightning Bolts, Pongifys and Counterspell in the rare event her final goes off) strikes me as nothing short of a boon in any instance.
And I'll eat my big pre-release promo card of Blossom served with a sauce made from my Griselbrand if that artwork doesn't scream; "Tamiyo is from Kamagowa"
4.5 out of 5 for utility, effectiveness, and moderate splashability, but minimal counter gain and an ultimate that's more like a nice wish than a feasible possibility.
If you play a spell during your opponents main phase, at the beginning of their end step you do what you're told to do. If you perform the action at the end of their turn, at your end step you do it.
I think she's a good threat in control mirrors that tend to rely on 1-2 fat creatures where tamiyo can lock them down, and since control games last long, she might actually reach ultimate. Against aggro she should probably be boarded out. Drawing a bunch of cards against tapped weenies is nice, but I would rather be playing a board sweeper or else I'm dead in 1-2 turns (especially if you're staring down a sword of war and peace). I suppose gideon + tamiyo could work, assuming you drop gideon the turn before and +2, hope he survives, next turn drop tamiyo and draw cards, then gideon +2's again. This might not work in reality though.
I like her. A balance of control and card advantage, and not a single land-bouncing mechanic in sight. 5/5
Mind Over Matter
I've been playing her in an Esper tapout deck with Gideon and Lingering Souls. Lingering Souls buys you time and interacts well with her -2. Gideon turns dudes sideways and then you draw even more.
I have drawn 17 cards in 1 turn off her -2 ability. My opponent cast Spider Spawning into my Gideon. After flashing it back and with my Gideon at 1 loyalty I cast Tamiyo. The next turn I shrugged off my dead Gideon as I proceeded to draw 17. Needles to say, I found the wrath I needed and then some.
As others have said, her ultimate is insane but does not immediately end the game. I did have an opponent concede when I showed them my hand of Day of Judgment and Mana Leak with her emblem in play, however.
So, the card itself from a purely Melvin (mechanical) perspective is pretty alright too! I've had some good luck with her in my control deck so far. Her +1 can tap down their big threat. Or, if they're swarming with little dudes, then I can use her -2 to dig for a sweeper.
Of course her ultimate is nuts. There are any number of crazily awesome things that can be done with it (infinite counterspells, board sweepers, kill spells, Lingering Souls, card draw, etc.), but you really can't count on that happening. And watch out for Zealous Conscr-ipts if/when you get her to 8! :O
ps. that emblem is ridiculous, no wonder it's cost is -8. makes it much easier to pull off the infinite time warp combo that i've been doing with my charmbreaker devils.
I have tamiyo with the ultimate done , and one mana leak in my hand,the other player cast one spell and i responde with mana leak and that player pays the mana leak.
Can i play again the same mana leak or the opponent spell resolves ?
Thank you in advance.
Avacyn Restored. Where else?
based on;
rule 704.4: game state changes arn't triggered during stack resolution.
rule 704.5i: state change check for planeswalker with 0 loyalty counters gets sent to owners graveyard.
tamiyo's emblem: if a card is placed in your graveyard from anyewhere you may have it returned to your hand instead
so my question is, is she being removed as the ability is placed on the stack as her casting cost is paid (-8 loyalty) ?
and even if this is the case wouldn't the game wait to check state till after said stack item was resolved?
and her first 2 are amazing in lockdown
5/1/2012: Tamiyo's first ability tracks the permanent, but not its controller. If the permanent changes controllers before its first controller's next untap step has come around, then it won't untap during its new controller's next untap step.
5/1/2012: The number of tapped creatures the player controls is determined when Tamiyo's second ability resolves.
5/1/2012: Tamiyo's third ability creates one emblem with two abilities.
5/1/2012: If you activate Tamiyo's third ability when she has eight loyalty counters on her, she'll be put into your graveyard before the emblem is created. She won't return to your hand.
5/1/2012: Cards that are put into your graveyard can be returned to your hand by the emblem's ability even if they were never in your hand.
Cast ANY spell in your hand INFINITELY!!!!
Cast ANY spell in your hand INFINITELY!!!!"
Overkill...INFINITELY!!!
Cheap overload on Blustersquall makes this an easily achievable combo, so you don't take damage for a turn while simultaneously drawing more answers to the opponents creatures that you are tapping.
Breakdown of her abilities:
+1: Frost Titan's ETB Effect.
-2: Borrowing 100,000 Arrows.
-8: Praetor's Counsel for every card hereafter.
ANY decent white/blue player can delay the game for at least 5 turns even without her +1's help
Does no one really remember the time when people thought Luminarch Ascension was crap, then suddenly it became very viable????
Then try to do that 4 turns with Tamiyo but instead of angels you'll be getting infinite Cyclonic Rifts, infinite Unsummons, even infinite Dissipates
Curse of Exhaustion
Cyclonic Rift
Dissipate
Congratulations, there's your standard deck. Fill in the blanks. Thanks, Tamiyo.
Turn 2. Silver Myr
Turn 4. Tamiyo *start using +1 ability*
Turn 6. Sphinx-Bone Wand
Turn 8. Drop emblem
Now You're All set up!
1. Tap Silver Myr for
2. Play Twiddle.
3. Untap Silver Myr.
4. Add counter and deal one damage to opponent.
5. Twiddle returns to you hand and you repeat from 1 until all opponents are dead!
so sick
oh and to build off of what @swords_to_exile said Manamorphose instead of Wild Cantor
Interesting side note, have gotten her -8 off a few times, and some personal favorites include Sleep and Supreme Verdict.
"Death triggers giving things flashback? This card would love an Innistrad block reprint. Too bad there's no way to fit a Kamigawa legend in flavor wise."
Hard to believe that you were actually wrong in a way.
Nothing like infinitely casting sleep to keep everything tapped forever.
5/5
Throw in Omniscience for good measure.
You're the only one who takes a turn.
1: Her ultimate is good, but you need to provide the ammo itself. she just makes it renewable.
2: Some cards completely change their meanings if you use them with her. For example, Tome Scour turns into a draw 5 for U. thats insane.
3:don't be afraid to use her -2 ability. If you can stop their big assault, you can use it, draw a lot, and immediately prepare for the next attack.
4: This card can turn counter decks into absolute nightmares, especially if they have Rewind.
Tamiyo Emblem
Omniscience
Leyline of Anticipation
Pull from Eternity in hand
Death Wish in hand
Angel's Grace in hand
Time Stop in hand or Counterspell of choice
Lifegain card in hand (if not winning this turn)
Not only is everything infinitely castable, but you can cast anything in Magic.
So let's review, you can counter anything with Time Stop, even things that normally couldn't; you cannot be killed because of Angel's Grace; and to top it all off you can grab any number of cards from outside the game (Pull from eternity will keep Death Wish coming back). And everything casts at instant speed, just in case.
Tamiyo Emblem
Omniscience
Leyline of Anticipation
Pull from Eternity in hand
Death Wish in hand
Platinum Angel
Time Stop in hand
Mindbreak Trap in hand (for countering spells during your turns)
Any infinite mana loop (for activated abilities)
Reality Spasm
Daring Apprentice (Split Second is a pain)
Elixir of Immortality (to get any spells you've already cast)
and perhaps Silence for fun?
That should actually give you unlimited possibilities. I can't think of anything that your opponent can do to stop you...
Be fun to see how many Kamigawa cards she plays with.
And that's just the beginning.
First, you need Tamiyo's emblem, three Stonybrook Bannerets, a Merrrow Reejerey and an Azorious Chancery on the battlefield.
Tap the Chancery for WU. Spend W to cast Summon the School. Tamiyo's emblem returns it to your hand, and because you cast a merfolk spell, the Reejerey untaps your Chancery. You now have 1 blue mana, 2 merfolk tokens and an untapped Chancery. Repeat until your opponent conceeds.
A little awkward to pull off, but it will be epic when you do.
Also, does Tamiyo remind anyone else of Desmond the Moon Bear?
Pop her ult, goes back to your hand.
Hows that for cool?
Actually no. the -8 is part of the cost. Tamiyo is put into the graveyard before the emblem is created. I think there's a ruling for that actually
That aside, I had her in a Turbo Fog Standard deck. Getting the ultimate off takes work, but once you're done, there isn't much your opponent can do when you can just reuse the same counterspells over and over.
Infinite creatures with Pact of the Titan. Infinite counters with Pact of Negation.
Don't worry about losing the next turn, you should have no problem winning that turn if you have both in hand.
Combos with magic cards.
Then drop a Bolt.
BUT THERE'S NO BLOOMIN' FLAVOR! WHAT AAAAARE YOU!? WHERE DO YOU COME FROM!? WHAT'S YOU'RE FAVORITE COLOR, DAMNIT! I WANT TO KNOW YOUR STORY!
(P.S. I know she's a Moonfolk from Kamigawa)
As much as I like mill and illusion decks, I'm tired of seeing Jace the mind douche as the poster boy of blue.
Give this one planeswalker novel, Wizards!
There have been heaps of suggestions for combos with the ultimate, and some of them are cool (DREAM HALLS!!!!). Anyways, heres mine - lotleth troll. Not exactly on colour but meh, infinite trample damage that can be done as a combat trick is definitely a thing.
Assuming you've got four Islands and four Swamps on the battlefield,
Tome Scour: mill 20 in one turn
Mind Sculpt: mill 28 in one turn
Breaking/Entering (breaking): mill 32 in one turn
Glimpse the Unthinkable: mill 40 in one turn
Not only that, but you can do this again the next turn!
*Fog*
Cast this, -2. Pull another fog.
Your move.
Manamorphose all day