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Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 230
Oracle Text
Flying, lifelink Spells you cast have delve. (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting those spells pays for {1}.) Whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to its mana value.
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Card Rulings
- April 4, 2025
“Delve” means “For each generic mana in this spell’s total cost, you may exile a card from your graveyard rather than pay that mana.” The delve ability isn’t an additional or alternative cost and applies only after the total cost of the spell with delve is determined.
Source: wotc - April 4, 2025
If a spell on the stack has an {X} in its mana cost, use the value of X chosen as it was cast to determine that spell’s mana value.
Source: wotc
Price History
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