This guy would be soo damn good (and expensive) without the random clause.
Posted By:
Mode
(10/3/2013 10:32:15 AM)
+1 YOLO
Also, sick combo with Bane Alley Broker - she protects the cards you want to keep from the dreaded +1! Of course, this requires that you splash two other colors just to make the card work marginally better....... BUT STILL
Posted By:
Goatllama
(10/4/2013 10:51:22 AM)
I run him in a very odd deck, I run a green/red deck and it's actually the best deck I've had. Haven't been able to find it since I put everything away in storage though.
Posted By:
Squeedly
(10/5/2013 3:11:59 PM)
Tibalt's ult is kind of contradictory with the rest of his abilities. In black/red you'll want to use removal to take care of your opponent's creatures because your creatures will generally be terrible at blocking. It stands to reason then, that if Tibalt ever hits his ult your opponent won't have any creatures out, because removal is your most efficient way of protecting him. Vice versa, if your opponent ever has enough creatures to make Tibalt's ult worth it, then he should be dead. My only explanation would be using his ult to deal the "final blow" to your opponent, either by giving all of your creatures haste or by stealing that single creature that your opponent just summoned. Stand-offs can happen, of course, but with black/red they're usually very rare, again, because your creatures are generally bad at blocking.
That's how I feel about Tibalt in the duel deck at any rate...
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(10/9/2013 4:04:35 PM)
This guy could actually be really good in a Magus of the Moon deck!
-You have loads of dead cards so you don't care after the intial soft lock what you lose because you either casted it or it doesn't do much of anything
-Chalice @1 doesn't bother him; he's a fine T2 play
-He's red, so chuckable to Chrome Mox
-The deck makes it so it's hard for your opponent to cast stuff. This guy hits people for huge damage if they aren't casting much.
I think that that makes him worth trying. Also, if you splash black with Tibalt then he's quite good with Blood scrivener. All of the sudden his +1 becomes "Draw 2, discard 1 at random" which is an insanely strong +1.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(10/31/2013 12:22:50 PM)
Poor Tibalt. He was caught in that awkward design space of "if we make this guy any more powerful he'll warp formats". I'm honestly glad they didn't push the boundaries on their first 2cmc 'walker.
Then they went and made the first 1cmc walker.
Posted By:
MostlyLost
(11/3/2013 12:02:28 PM)
VERY fun card! VERY powerful in the right deck while still being very risky and balanced to create a truly unique Planeswalker. Madness, Unearth, Flashback, Hellbent all work well with him.
4/5
Posted By:
Squrrox-Assassin
(12/1/2013 2:20:58 AM)
After a friend pulled one of these from a few random AVC boosters he bought, I took the fun task of explaining to him why it's bad.
"See, his abilities don't really do anything."
"He's still a Planeswalker for two mana! And Act of Treason is cool!"
"For which you have to somehow protect him while building loyalty."
"Still, he sifts your deck and the burn is nice."
"Dude. At random."
"... Yeah, he's bad."
Oh how much two words can change a card. I would gladly have paid another mana more if he had 3 loyalty and didn't discard at random, or even 4 mana if he got a bit of a workover.
I suppose he's fine if you build around him, but Planeswalkers should feel like they're seriously impacting how the game is played. For two mana, there's just not much that they could do to help him suck less. In fact, Tibalt is probably best ignored to death, watching you pitch your best spells in exchange for lands, feeding him a bit of damage every now and again to keep him from his ultimate.
Posted By:
Toraka
(12/12/2013 3:49:04 PM)
Am I the only person who wants to slap that smile off of his face?
I'm not the biggest MtG story expert, but why does he appear to be wearing a suit jacket?
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(12/24/2013 2:10:06 PM)
So far there hasn't been a deck that makes great use out of him, but I don't think he is nearly as bad as many people make him out to be.
Looting at random, while inferior to being able to choose what card to discard, is not as bad I people make it out to be. You are just as likely to discard a card you want as you are to discard you don't want. It is also very possible to influence the odds in your favor by timing your plays (e.g. using the ability before playing a land if your hand is heavy on land).
Overall, I think he is a solid card. He just needs the right home to be effective.
Posted By:
absreim
(2/18/2014 7:40:20 AM)