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Triskelion

Artifact Creature — Construct

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#4590
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Triskelion card art
Triskelion enters with three +1/+1 counters and can spend them as pinpoint damage — three targets, one body, immediate board impact. The cost is six mana for a 4/4 that empties itself on arrival, which is unplayable in isolation but irrelevant once you understand that Mikaeus, the Unhallowed turns this into an infinite damage combo requiring exactly two cards.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

46.7% of decks · synergy 0.46

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is the defining home for Triskelion — shoot three targets, shoot yourself, undying triggers, repeat for infinite damage to any targets at instant speed with no additional pieces required.

02
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

45.0% of decks · synergy 0.43

Heliod, Sun-Crowned pairs with Triskelion as a two-card infinite damage engine: Heliod's lifelink trigger puts counters back on Triskelion faster than it spends them, draining the table with no loop limit.

03
Trazyn the Infinite

Trazyn the Infinite

38.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Trazyn the Infinite can copy Triskelion's activated abilities from the graveyard, making every counter on any artifact creature in the bin a potential damage source and enabling combo lines without the original pieces in play.

05

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn

11.7% of decks · synergy 0.11

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn triggers off creatures with counters entering the battlefield, and Triskelion arrives with three, immediately generating value before it fires a single shot.

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 the only format where Triskelion sees real play, almost entirely because of the Mikaeus, the Unhallowed two-card combo that wins on the spot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with far cheaper and faster win conditions, so it never shows up in competitive lists. Modern legality is similarly irrelevant — six mana for a 4/4 that pings is not a Modern card. Triskelion's power ceiling is entirely Commander-specific, locked to combo shells that need a six-mana artifact creature as the second piece.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Triskelion is bulk despite being a two-card combo piece in one of Commander's most-built commanders — supply from decades of reprints keeps the floor low. It holds that price reliably; there's no reason it moves up absent a new combo discovery, but there's also no reason to wait.

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