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Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric3 generic manaWhite mana

The trigger condition is the whole engine: every historic spell you cast (and in white, that means a steady stream of cheap artifacts and legendaries) snaps a small creature straight back from the graveyard to the battlefield. The mana value 3 or less restriction draws the loop's boundary precisely, locking the reanimation target to the population of cards that do something useful when they enter or leave play: mana dorks, one-drops with death triggers, value bodies worth sacrificing and rebuying. The combos come together once you add the intermediate step the direct reanimation implies. Return a small creature, sacrifice it or bounce it back to hand, recast a cheap historic spell to trigger this again, and the loop tightens until a sacrifice outlet and a payoff turn recursion into a kill. That is the design tension: a 2/2 flier that does nothing the turn it lands becomes an arbitrarily large value engine the moment a bounce or a sac outlet and a free spell assemble around it. White's reanimation usually arrives narrow and one-shot: Reveillark, Karmic Guide, the resurrection package that returns a single creature and stops. This card instead makes recursion a passive, repeatable consequence of casting spells you wanted to cast anyway, converting white's tempo plan into a graveyard loop. The body is almost incidental; the line of text underneath it is what the deck is built around, hunting for the cheapest historic spell it can find and the outlet to spin it against.

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle (cmm)
CMM · #65uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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