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Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret

The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs {2} less to activate.
+1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
−2: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn't a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card."

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Price
$2.29
EDHREC rank
#3654
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Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh card art
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh makes every artifact activation free, which means a single resolved copy turns Aetherflux Reservoir, card draw engines, and vehicle crew costs into zero-mana actions for the rest of the turn. The cost is a six-mana planeswalker with no immediate board protection — you need an artifact-heavy deck that can extract value the same turn he lands, or he eats a removal spell and leaves nothing behind. In Morska, Undersea Sleuth and similar artifact-dense shells, that condition is reliably met.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

62.9% of decks · synergy 0.61

Morska, Undersea Sleuth is built around tapping artifacts for value, and Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh turns every one of those activations free — the synergy is direct enough that over 62% of Morska builds include him.

02
Shorikai, Genesis Engine

Shorikai, Genesis Engine

26.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Shorikai, Genesis Engine's tap ability to draw and create pilots is exactly the kind of repeated artifact activation that Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh was designed to subsidize, letting Shorikai fire multiple times a turn without draining your mana.

03
Kotori, Pilot Prodigy

Kotori, Pilot Prodigy

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.22

Kotori, Pilot Prodigy runs a dense vehicle package, and Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh offsets the crew costs that would otherwise eat your mana every combat step.

04
Inquisitor Greyfax

Inquisitor Greyfax

23.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

Inquisitor Greyfax leans on vehicles and tapping effects, and Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh frees up mana so the deck can crew, attack, and still hold up interaction in the same turn.

05
Memnarch

Memnarch

21.9% of decks · synergy 0.20

Memnarch's activated ability to steal permanents is mana-intensive by design, and Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh nullifies that cost entirely — letting Memnarch fire multiple times in a single turn if you have the blue mana to spare.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh does his best work — artifact-heavy decks in the format are common, games go long enough for a six-mana planeswalker to matter, and the free-activation effect scales with every engine piece on board. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, he's legal but largely absent: six mana is a backbreaking cost in a format where games end on turn four, and the effect doesn't close games fast enough to justify the slot. Legacy and Vintage have access to fast mana that could theoretically accelerate him out, but stronger artifact payoffs crowd him out of those lists. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where he's genuinely playable as a signature spell target, given how central single cards are to that format's engine.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.29 cheap tier

At $2.29, Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh is cheap for a mythic planeswalker with real competitive application in Commander, and that price reflects his narrow format window rather than a lack of power. He's unlikely to spike dramatically without a pushed new artifact commander, but at this price there's no reason to wait if the deck fits.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.