Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
SOC · uncommon · Released 2026-04-24
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
below rate
minor value alone
needs a shell
can take over a game
one mode
broadly useful
easily answered
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Rationale
Teshar is a 4cmc legendary Bird Cleric with flying; its triggered ability recurs a creature with MV 3 or less from the graveyard whenever a historic spell is cast, enabling powerful loops in artifact-dense or legendary-matters shells. It is a premier combo/aristocrats commander or 99th card — capable of infinite ETB loops with cheap artifacts (e.g., Mox Amber, Ornithopter, sac outlet) that kill the table. In 1v1 Brawl it also excels as a commander that generates repeated value from artifact casts.
Learnings (3)
Teshar enables infinite loops without needing green mana or tutors: a 0-mana artifact (Ornithopter/Mox Amber), a free/cheap sacrifice outlet (Phyrexian Altar, Altar of Dementia), and a historic cast trigger can loop indefinitely — all in mono-white.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
The historic trigger fires on Sagas and legendary spells too, not just artifacts — this means casting a legendary creature or planeswalker also fuels recursion, making the engine wider than pure artifact counts suggest.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Teshar is best as the commander rather than in the 99 because the commander zone ensures the historic engine is always accessible; as a 99th card, losing the recursion target (Teshar itself) to removal stalls the loop entirely.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #1,855