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Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · {2}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Flying, lifelink Spells you cast have delve. (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting those spells pays for {1}.) Whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to its mana value.
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What Teval, Arbiter of Virtue actually does

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What a Teval, Arbiter of Virtue deck wants

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Best cards for Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  3. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  4. Herd Heirloom2 mana
  5. Overprotect2 mana
  6. Ram Through2 mana
  7. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  8. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Profane Tutor0 mana
  6. Sol Talisman0 mana
  7. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  8. Urza's Bauble0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Reality Shift2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Displacement Wave2 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Coils of the Medusa2 mana
  8. Forced March3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  7. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  8. Nature's Rhythm2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  7. Crop Rotation1 mana
  8. Delighted Halfling1 mana

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