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A Moonfolk tribal deck that leverages land bounce mechanics to generate card advantage and control the board, while building towards a card-draw based victory condition through various Tamiyo planeswalkers and tribal synergies.
Primer:
The deck's primary strategy revolves around utilizing Moonfolk creatures' abilities to bounce lands for various effects, while offsetting this drawback through land-return effects and card advantage. The commander, Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student, provides consistent card draw through Clue tokens and transforms into a planeswalker that offers both protection and recursion.
The deck operates on multiple axes, combining tribal synergies with a "lands matter" subtheme and card draw payoffs. Early game focuses on establishing card advantage through investigators and Moonfolk abilities, while mid-game transitions into leveraging tribal payoffs like Reflections of Littjara and Kindred Discovery. The deck can win through combat damage, commander damage, or alternative win conditions like Laboratory Maniac when paired with its substantial card draw engines.
Weaknesses:
- Heavy reliance on lands makes the deck vulnerable to land destruction and Blood Moon effects
- Many key creatures have low toughness, making them susceptible to damage-based board wipes
- The deck's primary engine requires multiple pieces to function optimally, making it vulnerable to targeted removal
- Limited instant-speed interaction outside of a few counterspells
Most Important Cards:
- Patron of the Moon
- Kindred Discovery
- Reflections of Littjara
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Vanquisher's Banner
- Herald's Horn
- Laboratory Maniac
- Psychosis Crawler
- Meloku the Clouded Mirror
- Growth Spiral
Attribute Ratings:
- Speed: 5/10
- Resilience: 6/10
- Consistency: 7/10
- Interaction: 4/10
Rating Justification:
This deck operates at a focused casual level, with its tribal synergies and card advantage engines allowing it to establish a reasonable board presence by turns 7-8. While it includes some powerful effects, the deck's reliance on multiple pieces and its relatively slow speed places it firmly in the casual category. The deck's interaction suite is limited, but it makes up for this with consistent card advantage and tribal synergies.
Final power level rating: 5.0 - 5.5
The deck sits in this range because it has a clear gameplan and good synergies, but lacks the explosive starts and heavy interaction suite needed for higher power levels. It's more refined than a typical precon but doesn't reach the consistency and speed of more optimized decks.

Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar