The Valeyard

The Valeyard is all about exploiting choice effects and voting mechanics to swing games in your favor. Your opponents will be forced into repeated villainous choices—like those from cards like Fact or Fiction, Boros Charm, or Grixis Charm—giving you more control over their decision-making while they scramble to mitigate damage. Meanwhile, you get to vote multiple times on cards like Expropriate, Assemble the Doomsday Machine, or Knowledge Pool, which means you're essentially doubling down on the best outcome every single time.

The deck plays like a strategic control engine wrapped in political gamesmanship. You're running a suite of choice-based instants and sorceries, along with vote-heavy cards that let you pivot the game state in your direction repeatedly. Whether you're making your opponents sacrifice their best creatures, give you their lands, or mill their libraries, you're making the hard decisions *twice*. It's a sneaky, interactive strategy that doesn't need to swing for 21 damage—just make better choices than everyone else and watch the board fall into your favor.

Wins come through a combination of card advantage, resource denial, and incremental value. By voting twice on Expropriate you're essentially taking two extra turns worth of resources, and by forcing opponents through multiple villainous choices you're systematically dismantling their gameplans while advancing your own. Lean into effects that ask opponents to choose, then laugh as they have to choose twice.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.