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The Celestial Toymaker
Legendary Creature — Rogue Artificer
Whenever The Celestial Toymaker attacks, look at the top three cards of your library. Exile any number of them in a face-down pile and the rest in a face-up pile. Defending player chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses 2 life for each spell or ability that caused one or more players to guess or to group cards or permanents into a pile this turn.
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“Dimir control via library guessing games and pile-based tutoring”
Control
Intermediate
Combat damage, Alt-win
Control, Voltron
Strategy
The Celestial Toymaker is a control-focused commander that turns combat into a mini-game of information warfare. Every time it attacks, you get to curate your draws by offering your opponent a choice between face-down and face-up piles from the top of your library—but you control what goes where, giving you soft tutoring while they think they're making the decision. The second ability rewards you for loading the deck with effects that involve guessing, piling, or grouping, punishing all opponents for playing along.
Your core gameplan is to attack with the Toymaker early and often (it's cheap and evasive threats help), generate value from your library, and build up incidental damage through the pile-creation triggers. You'll want to include cards that force guessing or piling effects, turning every spell into a potential life-drain while you dig for answers. This creates a slow but steady damage clock while you're effectively tutoring yourself mid-game, eventually wearing opponents down while you assemble the pieces you need.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive mana rocks early; use Wayfarer's Bauble, Coldsteel Heart, and Thought Vessel instead of pricey tutors—the pile mechanic partially replaces tutoring.
Signature Cards
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