Card
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
Mana cost {3}{W}
Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric 2/2
Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 623 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DOM · #36
- Cheapest printing
- €0.10
- EDHREC salt
- 0.37
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Flying
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
623 known combos.
- Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle + Sol Ring + Scrap Trawler + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle + Sol Ring + Scrap Trawler + Arcbound Ravager
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle + Myr Retriever + Blasting Station
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
If the mana cost of a card in your graveyard includes {X}, X is considered to be 0. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
An ability that triggers "whenever you cast a historic spell" doesn't trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn't make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus—an object either is historic or it isn't. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered. - 2018-04-27 · Wizards of the Coast
Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell" won't trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won't trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a legendary land, as the Ixalan and Rivals of Ixalan double-faced cards do.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast