Tezzeret's Strider
Artifact Creature — Golem
As long as you control a Tezzeret planeswalker, this creature has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29656
Tezzeret's Strider is a 4/4 for three mana — one of the most efficient stat lines available — as long as you control an artifact with mana value four or greater. That condition is trivially met in any artifact-heavy shell, making this a genuinely underplayed rate card.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tezzeret's Strider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. Artifact-centric Commander decks regularly run high-mana-value artifacts as a matter of course, so the condition costs almost nothing to enable. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, a 4/4 for three with a condition attached competes against unconditional threats and loses that argument cleanly. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where artifact planeswalker shells could enable it consistently, but the format's smaller card pool limits how much that matters in practice.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Tezzeret's Strider is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking about it. Bulk rares with narrow enabling conditions rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat this as a free include, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.