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Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor

Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Planeswalker — Tibalt · {1}{B} // {5}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

When Valki enters, each opponent reveals their hand. For each opponent, exile a creature card they revealed this way until Valki leaves the battlefield. {X}: Choose a creature card exiled with Valki with mana value X. Valki becomes a copy of that card. As Tibalt enters, you get an emblem with "You may play cards exiled with Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells." +2: Exile the top card of each player's library. −3: Exile target artifact or creature. −8: Exile all graveyards. Add {R}{R}{R}.

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What Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor 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 · etbWhen Valki enters, each opponent reveals their hand. For each opponent, exile a creature card they revealed this way until Valki leaves the battlefield.
• Activated ability{X}: Choose a creature card exiled with Valki with mana value X. Valki becomes a copy of that card.
• Activated ability+2: Exile the top card of each player's library.
• Activated ability−3: Exile target artifact or creature.
• Activated ability−8: Exile all graveyards. Add {R}{R}{R}.
• AbilityAs Tibalt enters, you get an emblem with "You may play cards exiled with Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells."

What a Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor deck needs

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

• X mana to become a copy of an exiled creature
• blink and recursion (each entry takes a creature from every opponent's hand)
• protection for the Tibalt side

The Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor deck plan

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

• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor

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