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Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar

Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard // Legendary Planeswalker — Tamiyo · {U} · Green/Blue commander

Flying Whenever Tamiyo attacks, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") When you draw your third card in a turn, exile Tamiyo, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. +2: Until your next turn, whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn. −3: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a green card, add one mana of any color. −7: Draw cards equal to half the number of cards in your library, rounded up. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

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What Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Tamiyo attacks, investigate.
• Triggered ability · otherWhen you draw your third card in a turn, exile Tamiyo, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control.
• Activated ability+2: Until your next turn, whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
• Activated ability−3: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a green card, add one mana of any color.
• Activated ability−7: Draw cards equal to half the number of cards in your library, rounded up. You get an emblem
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · investigateinvestigate

What a Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• card draw (a third draw in a turn flips it)
• instants and sorceries for the walker to return

The Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 7× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

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