Tezzeret, Cruel Captain card art

Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Tezzeret.

0: Untap target artifact or creature. If it's an artifact creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

−3: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put three +1/+1 counters on target artifact you control. If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature."

Combos with Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Time Vault Infinite
    • Infinite turns
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ichormoon Gauntlet Academy Manufactor Mechanized Production Transmutation Font Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact tokens
    • Win the game
    • Infinite turns
    • Near-infinite colored mana
    • Near-infinite Treasure tokens
    • Near-infinite Clue tokens
    • Near-infinite Food tokens
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ichormoon Gauntlet Academy Manufactor Extravagant Replication Tamiyo's Journal Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite turns
    • Near-infinite colored mana
    • Near-infinite Treasure tokens
    • Near-infinite Clue tokens
    • Near-infinite Food tokens
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Ichormoon Gauntlet Academy Manufactor Extravagant Replication Transmutation Font Infinite
    • Near-infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite turns
    • Near-infinite Clue tokens
    • Near-infinite Food tokens
    • Lock
    • Near-infinite colored mana
    • Near-infinite Treasure tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-07-25

    The emblem’s triggered ability doesn’t remove any abilities, types, subtypes, or supertypes the artifact has.

  • 2025-07-25

    If the emblem’s ability causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature, its base power and toughness will be set to 0/0. Crewing that Vehicle will not restore its power and toughness. Similarly, if the ability causes a permanent with station to become an artifact creature, putting an amount of charge counters on it greater than or equal to the amount required for it to become an artifact creature won’t overwrite the base power and toughness set by the emblem’s ability.

  • 2025-07-25

    If the emblem’s ability causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature, it doesn’t count as “crewing” that Vehicle for any ability that would trigger due to a Vehicle becoming crewed.

  • 2025-07-25

    If a card in your library has X in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

  • 2025-07-25

    The resulting artifact creature will be able to attack if it’s been under your control continuously since the turn began. That is, it doesn’t matter how long it’s been a creature, just how long it’s been on the battlefield.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Tivit, Seller of Secrets 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tezzeret, Cruel Captain — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.