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Triskelavus

Artifact Creature — Construct

Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Triskelavite artifact creature token with flying. It has "Sacrifice this token: This token deals 1 damage to any target."

CMC
7
Mana cost
{7}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2011
Price
$0.53
EDHREC rank
#18714
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Triskelavus card art
Triskelavus enters as a 7/7 flier that immediately fragments into a swarm of 1/1 tokens, each capable of dealing 1 damage anywhere — that's a repeatable, distributed kill condition on a single card. The seven-mana cost is steep, but in token-doubling or counter-stacking shells like Cathars' Crusade, the math gets out of hand fast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Triskelavus actually gets to live — seven mana is reachable, and the ability to ping planeswalkers, players, or small creatures turn after turn fits naturally into aristocrats, token, and combo shells. In Legacy and Vintage it's a curiosity at best; the cost and speed mismatch with those formats is too severe to justify inclusion over faster threats. Modern has the same problem — seven mana for a fragile combo piece doesn't compete with what that format demands at that cost. Triskelavus is a Commander card wearing a Legacy-legal badge.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.53 bulk tier

At $0.53, Triskelavus is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with real combo ceiling. That price is unlikely to move much without a reprint or a sudden spike in the token-combo archetypes that want it most.

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