BlackLegendary Planeswalker — SzatTevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
Mana value5Rank#3,616PartnerYes
The Commander
+2: Create two 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens.
+1: You may sacrifice another creature or planeswalker. If you do, draw two cards, then draw another card if the sacrificed permanent was a commander.
−10: Gain control of all commanders. Put all commanders from the command zone onto the battlefield under your control.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools can be your commander.
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Guide
Gameplan
Tevesh Szat is an aristocrats and card-advantage engine on a planeswalker chassis: you +2 to make Thrull fodder, then +1 to sacrifice creatures for two cards each turn, fueling a sacrifice-and-recur loop. As a Partner commander he wants a second commander to share the burden, and his ultimate can steal opponents' commanders to close games. You grind value while building toward a combo or overwhelming board.
Strengths
- Repeatable, unconditional card draw that refills your hand every turn
- Generates its own sacrifice fodder via Thrull tokens
- Partner lets you pair into a second color/strategy for flexibility
- Doubles as a token-producing engine and a sacrifice outlet for combos
- Can be cast from the command zone and recast for ongoing advantage
Weaknesses
- Mono-black on his own means no interaction outside removal and discard
- Fragile to planeswalker hate, combat damage, and being attacked down
- The +1 requires sacrificing creatures, so empty boards stall your draw
- The -10 ultimate is very slow and rarely the actual win
- Reliant on protecting a permanent that draws every opponent's attention
Key Cards
- Pitiless Plunderer — Turns every creature you sacrifice to Tevesh into treasure, generating mana to recast and snowball.
- Dockside Extortionist — Pairs with sacrifice loops and treasure synergies to explode your mana for combo turns.
- Skullclamp — Stacks with Tevesh's draw, turning 0/1 Thrulls into card-draw machines.
- Gravecrawler — A recurring sacrifice fodder body that you can replay endlessly to feed the +1 draw.
- Phyrexian Altar — A free sacrifice outlet and mana source that enables combo loops alongside Tevesh's draw.
- Ashnod's Altar — Converts your Thrull tokens into mana, fueling explosive turns and combos.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Dark Ritual, Jet Medallion, treasure makers) to deploy and protect Tevesh ahead of curve, then build a tight aristocrats package with Blood Artist effects and a recursion engine like Gravecrawler plus an altar for a true combo finish. Choose a Partner that adds interaction or a second axis—Thrasios for card filtering, Tymna for extra draw, or Reyhan for counters—and include planeswalker protection like Norn's Annex or proactive board defense.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Infinite sacrifice/recursion loops (e.g. Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar + a drain effect) draining the table
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Bastion of Remembrance
- ▸Overwhelming the board with tokens and alpha striking
- ▸Comboing into a game-ending payoff after drawing through the deck
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — His +1 is a built-in sacrifice payoff and the +2 supplies a steady stream of fodder.
- Combo — Sacrifice loops with altars and treasure makers generate infinite mana, draw, or tokens.
- Tokens — The +2 floods the board with bodies that double as fuel or attackers.
- Reanimator — Black's recursion lets you keep sacrificing and rebuying creatures for continuous value.
Combos
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + The Chain Veil + Ashnod's Altar + Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite activations of most planeswalkers
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + The Chain Veil + Ashnod's Altar + Ral Zarek
→ Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + The Chain Veil + Carth the Lion + Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + The Chain Veil + Ashnod's Altar + Aphetto Alchemist + Intruder Alarm
→ Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa + Norn's Choirmaster + Doubling Season
→ Gain control of all commanders, Infinite proliferate, Put all commanders from the command zone onto the battlefield
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (B), by popularity.
