Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded
Legendary Planeswalker — Tibalt
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card at random.
−4: Tibalt deals damage equal to the number of cards in target player's hand to that player.
−6: Gain control of all creatures until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $8.00
- EDHREC rank
- #17636
Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded is the worst planeswalker ever printed at competitive tables — a two-mana walker sounds exciting until you read that the +1 is random discard and the ultimate requires seven loyalty he'll never reach. Run him only when the deck specifically rewards chaos, discard synergies, or the Tibalt tribal theme, and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander he finds a narrow home in discard-matters or chaos builds — think Rakdos the Defiler or Xantcha, Sleeper Agent shells where the random discard occasionally becomes a feature rather than a bug. In Legacy and Vintage the two-mana cost is the only thing going for him; every competitive red spell at that slot does something more reliable, so he simply doesn't show up in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one arena where pairing him as the planeswalker half of a signature-spell package can make the randomness feel thematic rather than punishing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded's core appeal is cheap-planeswalker status and incidental discard — Faithless Looting does the looting half better for a fraction of the cost and doesn't die to a stiff breeze. If the goal is a low-cost red card that generates ongoing value in a chaos or discard shell, Burning Inquiry hits every player and fuels graveyard synergies without asking you to protect a walker with two starting loyalty.
Price Context
Current price
$8.00 mid tier
At $8.00, Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded sits in the mid tier almost entirely on collector and novelty demand rather than gameplay power. That price is unlikely to climb — supply is healthy and competitive demand is essentially zero — so treat it as a theme-deck purchase, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.