Trystan, Callous Cultivator
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Trystan, Callous Cultivator, mill three cards. Then if there is an Elf card in your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay . If you do, transform Trystan.
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature transforms into Trystan, Penitent Culler, mill three cards, then you may exile an Elf card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay . If you do, transform Trystan.
Rulings
9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-11-17
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
- 2025-11-17
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
- 2025-11-17
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
- 2025-11-17
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all.
- 2025-11-17
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
- 2025-11-17
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Oko, Lorwyn Liege's color identity is green and blue, since its front face is blue, its rules text contains a green mana symbol, and its back face has a green color indicator as well as a blue mana symbol in its rules text.
- 2025-11-17
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
- 2025-11-17
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
- 2025-11-17
In some rare cases, this permanent might transform while its triggered ability that allows you to pay mana to transform it is still on the stack. (For example, another effect might cause that ability to trigger an additional time.) In such a case, even if you pay mana as the triggered ability resolves, this permanent won't transform because it already transformed while the triggered ability was on the stack.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Trystan, Callous Cultivator, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maralen, Fae Ascendant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 1 deck
Trystan, Callous Cultivator price history
The Lorwyn Eclipsed #199 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.40 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.40 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.40 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.40 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.38 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Trystan, Callous Cultivator
2 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.31
- Foil
- $0.40
Inverted
- Normal
- $0.50
- Foil
- $0.90
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Trystan, Callous Cultivator. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
