Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
Legendary Creature — Faerie Noble
Flying, deathtouch
Other Faeries you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Faerie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander
- Price
- $5.51
- EDHREC rank
- #3707
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor turns every Faerie death into a card draw and shaves a mana off every Faerie you cast — two engines stapled to one three-mana body. In Faerie decks, especially Alela, Cunning Conqueror shells that churn through token fodder, that combination is too efficient to leave out of the 99.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alela, Cunning Conqueror
Alela, Cunning Conqueror floods the board with Faerie tokens whenever opponents cast spells, and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor converts every one of those tokens that trades or gets swept into a fresh card — the two cards form a self-replenishing draw engine that makes Alela's go-wide plan dramatically harder to exhaust.
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist pings opponents on each Faerie cast, and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor's cost reduction means Obyra decks can chain more Faeries per turn through the same mana — more casts, more pings, more cards drawn when those Faeries inevitably die.
Alela, Artful Provocateur
Alela, Artful Provocateur generates a Faerie token for each artifact or enchantment you cast, and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor's death-draw trigger means the token swarm doubles as a card-draw buffer whenever a board wipe or block clears the field.
Maralen, Fae Ascendant
Maralen, Fae Ascendant cares deeply about Faerie tribal density and life-loss synergies, and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor fills both a curve slot and a card-advantage role that keeps Maralen lists from running out of threats mid-game.
Talion, the Kindly Lord
Talion, the Kindly Lord builds around Faeries and punishing opponents for specific numbers, and Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor's cost discount lets the deck develop its board faster while the draw trigger mitigates the card loss that aggressive Faerie strategies often suffer.
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 |
Commander is where Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor actually lives — the Faerie tribal payoff is a known archetype, and the card slots cleanly into any Dimir, Esper, or Grixis Faerie shell at a low opportunity cost. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy and Vintage, but Faerie tribal in those formats runs leaner and faster than a three-mana lord with a death trigger can keep up with, so it rarely sees play there. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if you're running a Faerie-focused signature spell package, though the smaller deck size limits how often the death-draw trigger fires. Everywhere else — Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Pauper — it's off the table entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Bitterblossom provides the repeatable Faerie token generation that fuels Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor's draw trigger, though it costs more financially and lacks the cost reduction half entirely. If you want a cheaper stand-in that covers the card-draw angle, Faerie Trickery and similar incidental draw pieces can patch the gap, but nothing in the budget tier replicates both the discount and the death trigger on a single card — Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor is genuinely doing double duty that split alternatives can't cleanly replicate.
Price Context
Current price
$5.51 mid tier
At $5.51, Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most Faerie builds. Given its inclusion rate above 87% in Alela, Cunning Conqueror decks alone, the price reflects legitimate demand rather than speculation, and it's unlikely to crater.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.