Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar

Gameplan

Tamiyo enters as a cheap evasive attacker that investigates each combat, fueling card draw and powering up your engine. Build around drawing your third card each turn to flip her into a planeswalker that recurs your best instants and sorceries (with green mana rebates) and ultimately draws half your deck. You snowball card advantage while protecting yourself, then close with a spell-fueled combo or an overwhelming board.

Key Cards

• Mystic Remora — Cheap repeatable draw that helps trigger the third-card flip while pressuring opponents.
• Brainstorm — Instant-speed triple-draw on the cheap, reliably flipping Tamiyo at the right moment.
• Snapcaster Mage — Synergizes with the graveyard-recursion side and adds to your draw count.
• Reliquary Tower — Lets you hoard the cards her ultimate and engines generate without discarding.
• Cyclonic Rift — A premier recurrable bomb to loop with her −3 for repeated board resets.
• Thassa's Oracle — With her −7 emptying your library, it provides a clean win condition.

Upgrade Path

Lean into cheap cantrips (Ponder, Preordain, Brainstorm, Opt) and draw engines (Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study) to flip her consistently, then add a tight instant/sorcery package worth recurring. Include a compact combo finish—Thassa's Oracle plus her ultimate, or Underworld Breach-style loops—and fast mana like Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, and dorks to deploy and protect her early. Cut high-cost permanents in favor of efficient interaction (Swan Song, Fierce Guardianship, Cyclonic Rift) that her −3 can buy back.