Testament Bearer
Creature — Phyrexian Warrior
When this creature dies, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20941
Testament Bearer gives you a two-mana 1/1 that lets creatures you control haunt other creatures on death, turning every kill spell aimed at your board into a delayed trigger against an opponent's creature. The rate is poor for aggressive formats, but the persistent disruption it enables in value-oriented Commander shells is real.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Testament Bearer has the most plausible home — haunting synergizes with sacrifice and death-trigger strategies, and the political angle of saddling an opponent's best creature with a delayed debuff has incremental value over a long game. In Pauper, the card is legal but competes against far more efficient two-drops; it sees no meaningful play there. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have zero interest — the effect is too slow and the body too small to register in those formats. Pioneer is legal and similarly unplayable competitively. Testament Bearer is a Commander-or-casual card, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Testament Bearer is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless a deck-defining combo or Commander synergy pushes demand, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.