Moira and Teshar
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Spirit Bird
Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #14854
Moira and Teshar puts a recursive engine on the board the moment a historic spell resolves — artifacts, legendaries, and sagas all trigger the return clause, so the payoff is immediate and self-reinforcing. The cost is a four-mana investment on a creature that dies to every removal spell Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos opponents are already running, but the ceiling on a live copy is high enough to justify it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos generates a constant stream of Phyrexian artifact tokens, and every one of those artifacts triggering a cast means Moira and Teshar is fishing creatures back from the graveyard almost every turn — the two cards form a self-sustaining loop that turns incidental board presence into recursive gas.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Moira and Teshar is a Commander card through and through — the historic trigger rewards the density of legendaries and artifacts that EDH decks naturally accumulate, and the singleton format limits the redundancy needed to make it competitive elsewhere. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a value engine with no immediate board impact is too slow when the formats are ending games on turns one through three. Commander is where the card actually lives: legendary-tribal builds, artifact-heavy shells, and saga-based engines all give it consistent triggers and a real late-game role. Oathbreaker is legal but niche enough that the same logic applies — you'd need a specific shell to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Moira and Teshar sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it a zero-risk pickup for any Commander player building around legendaries or artifacts. Bulk rares with narrow, synergy-dependent homes rarely spike, so don't expect price movement — buy it because the deck wants it, not because the market will.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.