Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon
Flying, lifelink
Spells you cast have delve. (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting those spells pays for 
.)
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to its mana value.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10773
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue lands as a powerful value engine that rewards building around virtuous deeds — drawing cards and generating tempo on the back of life gain or other triggered conditions. The cost is real deck-building constraints: you need a critical mass of the right effects to make Teval, Arbiter of Virtue pull its weight.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Teval, Arbiter of Virtue is the natural home — a 100-card singleton environment gives you the space to stack the triggers it wants, and multiplayer life totals mean the game goes long enough to capitalize on incremental value. Competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy have little interest: the effect is too slow and too conditional against decks optimizing for speed. Standard and Pioneer are the realistic constructed homes if the surrounding support cards are there, but Teval, Arbiter of Virtue lives or dies by the metagame's tolerance for a build-around rare.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.