Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret
+1: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−1: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5.
−4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Mythic Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13725
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas tutors any artifact directly to hand and threatens to end the game with its ultimate — all on a five-loyalty body that's already ahead the turn it enters. The cost is real: four mana in blue-black means he competes with counterspells and interaction on curve, and he dies to any unchecked aggro before the ultimate matters, but in an artifact-dense shell he routinely generates two activations before opponents can answer him, and a single uptick finding Aetherflux Reservoir changes the game state permanently.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas is a staple in any blue-black artifact deck — the -1 tutors at instant-speed equivalent value for a planeswalker ability, and the ultimate is a realistic one-shot kill in a shell with ten or more artifacts. Legacy and Vintage see occasional fringe play in artifact-based control shells, though four mana is a steep ask in formats where games end by turn three; he shows up in slower fair builds rather than combo engines. Modern is largely the same story — playable in artifact midrange but never a format pillar. Oathbreaker is where Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas arguably does his best work outside Commander, since he can serve as the planeswalker commander himself, making the -1 a repeatable tutor engine from the command zone.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card


Aetherflux ReservoirTezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Infinite damage; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Isochron ScepterTo Arms!Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Isochron ScepterRoar of the KhaTezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Isochron ScepterCall to GloryTezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Isochron ScepterEnergy ArcTezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.