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I'd like to push back at the negative feedback so far. I really don't think he is as terrifble as people are saying. A midrangey deck that can take full advantage of the card advantage would be happy with him at any point in the game. Even a hyper aggressive red deck may like this on turn two, provided your opponent doesn't have a creature you can't kill, since he gets rid of you excess lands, drawing you into gas, and represents the potential for a large chunk of damage. He gets worse against delver or on later turns than 2 for some decks which probably will keep him out of most maindecks, but at the very least, ANY planeswalker on turn two is a blowout against true control decks, were such a thing to become popular. He's not great, but certainly playable if the sort of decks he wants are also playable.

I actually kinda like this guy.

I like that he's kinda subtle, and tricky, good for a devil planeswalker. Also, he's a devil planeswalker. Which is nifty in and of itself.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him find a home in some deck at some point. My best guess would be combo. Load up your graveyard with red rituals with this guy, then cast past in flames.

Or maybe a sideboard card against draw-go. Drop this guy turn two on the play before they get mana leak, load up on loyalty, then whack them with a sudden impact.

Maybe this guy doesn't cut the mustard, but I wouldn't dismiss him yet. Don't think he'll see much play in this standard meta with Temporal Mastery-Delver running wild though. Invisible stalker kills this guy in no time flat. But I wouldn't be surprised to see him show up in one of the larger formats somewhere.

I'm just happy to see something interesting without attempting to be overpowered like some other cards we've seen this week.

EDIT: Also, anyone notice that this set seems to have a bit of a randomness subtheme? Between this and Miracle? Two mana is pretty aggressive costing, so again I wouldn't be suprised to see this see play. Maybe he and TM can go in the same deck with noxious revival. The answer for how to get those extra TMs out of your hand if you're running 4.
EDIT 2: Add bonfire of the damned from ChannelFireball for more Miracle fun with this sort of deck.

Are there any silver bullets powerful enough that a Silver bullets graveyard deck might be viable? Something like

4 Tibalt
4 Faithless looting
4 Noxious revival
4 reclaim
4 TM
4 Bonfire
16 Silver bullets
20 land

Well it seem Mr Devil is getting alot of hate... Better get em while he cheap ish XD

Be honest, Zac.  If this cost UU, he'd be a straight-up Merfolk Looter and have two other powerful abilities to go along with it.  Right?

You pitted Incinerate against Snapcaster Mage, Mana Leak, Phantasmal Image, and Invisible Stalker?  Seriously?  Snapcaster alone is winning games in Standard, Modern, Legacy, and even Vintage.  I think the other colors can use more of an extra push from time to time.

With that in mind, I strongly feel Tibalt didn't need to have discard that is random.  I won't completely denounce the card at this point, though.  I'll reserve full judgment until I see the rest of the set and get to play with it.  Hopefully, the card you hinted at will help him along.  Right now, I will say that I am somewhat disappointed, because he doesn't seem very useful in current Standard decks.

On the postive side, filtering effects in red are a good idea.  But please note that if you're going to give blue access to more aggressive cards than red (Delver vs. Waif), you should give red the more powerful version of the looting effect in exchange.  Blue was already more powerful overall.  It doesn't need to get the stronger creatures AND keep the better ability.