Tibalt's Trickery card art

Tibalt's Trickery

Instant MV 2

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-02-05

    If the spell has X in its mana cost, they must choose 0 as the value of X.

  • 2021-02-05

    If there aren't any nonland cards in that library with a different name than the countered spell, the player will exile all cards from their library, revealing all of them, and then they'll put those cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

  • 2021-02-05

    Tibalt's Trickery can target a spell that can't be countered. If Tibalt's Trickery resolves, the target spell won't be countered, but all of the other effects will still happen.

  • 2021-02-05

    If a player casts a spell "without paying its mana cost," they can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. They can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.

  • 2021-02-05

    If the spell that's countered was the back face of a modal double-faced card, no card in the player's library will have the same name as that spell because those cards all use only their front-face characteristics while in the library; however, if the first card the player exiles that has a different name than the spell is a modal double-faced card, they may cast either face, even if the back face has the same name as the countered spell.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Tibalt's Trickery, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 2 —
Godo, Bandit Warlord 1 1 —
Deadpool, Trading Card 1 0 —
Klothys, God of Destiny 1 0 —
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Rakdos 2 decks
  • Gruul 2 decks
  • Mono-Red 1 deck

Every version of Tibalt's Trickery

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tibalt's Trickery — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.