Card
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
Mana cost {2}{B}{G}{U}
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon 6/6
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · TDM · #230
- Cheapest printing
- €0.53
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black, Green, Blue
- Keywords
- Flying, Lifelink
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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
“Delve” means “For each generic mana in this spell’s total cost, you may exile a card from your graveyard rather than pay that mana.” The delve ability isn’t an additional or alternative cost and applies only after the total cost of the spell with delve is determined. - 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell on the stack has an {X} in its mana cost, use the value of X chosen as it was cast to determine that spell’s mana value.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast