Torsten, Founder of Benalia
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
When Torsten enters, reveal the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of creature and/or land cards from among them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
When Torsten dies, create seven 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Dominaria United Commander
- Price
- $1.78
- EDHREC rank
- #13038
Torsten, Founder of Benalia drops seven bodies and tutors seven creatures to hand in one trigger — the board and the hand both get restocked the moment it dies. The cost is eight mana and a vulnerability to graveyard hate, but pairing it with Nim Deathmantle turns that death trigger into a repeatable engine rather than a one-shot payoff. Peter Parker decks run it as a self-contained value bomb that doesn't need any other setup to justify its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Peter Parker
Peter Parker's ability to sacrifice and recur creatures makes Torsten, Founder of Benalia an obvious target — every time Torsten dies, you reload seven 1/1 Soldiers and tutor seven creatures to hand, which Peter Parker can immediately start converting into new triggers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Torsten, Founder of Benalia is a Commander card through and through — eight mana is a ceiling most competitive formats won't tolerate, but in EDH the death trigger is a full board refill and a seven-card tutor in one package, which is exactly the kind of late-game inevitability the format rewards. Legacy and Vintage allow it but have no realistic use for it; the format speed leaves Torsten stranded before it ever resolves. Oathbreaker is the only other legal format where it could see play, though the smaller deck size dilutes the tutor value somewhat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Torsten, Founder of BenaliaNim DeathmantleAshnod's Altar
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Put all creature and land cards from your library into your hand
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Torsten, Founder of BenaliaNim DeathmantlePhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Put all creature and land cards from your library into your hand
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Torsten, Founder of BenaliaEnduring RenewalPhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Put all creature and land cards from your library into your hand
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Torsten, Founder of BenaliaPhyrexian AltarMyth UnboundMirage Mirror
Infinite card draw; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite commander casts
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Current price
$1.78 cheap tier
At $1.78, Torsten, Founder of Benalia sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — the effect is powerful enough that this price won't last if the card finds a breakout pairing. For now it's an easy pickup for any white creature-value deck that can reliably reach eight mana.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.