Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Color Identity
Details
Mana Value
4
Popularity
#98
of 3,466 commanders · via EDHREC
Card Text
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Flying
If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead.
{1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
3/5
Playstyle
Control · Steady · Minimal interaction · Wins by engines
- Aggression
- 2 of 5
- Speed
- 2 of 5
- Interaction
- 2 of 5
- Combat
- 2 of 5
- Engine
- 5 of 5
- Complexity
- 4 of 5
Card Price
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Strategy Guides
Infect Strategy Guide
Infect decks are for players who want life totals to matter less than reaching ten poison on each opponent. This strategy wants to connect with infect and toxic creatures, using pump spells, evasion, protection, and infect commanders, to win through poison counter decks EDH opponents have to answer early. In the Counters, Proliferate, and Infect overlap, Counters grows creatures, Proliferate multiplies many counter types, and Infect is the poison win condition that proliferate can accelerate. The social cost is real: once poison appears, the table often treats you as the first threat, and some pods restrict the mechanic before deck selection.
Proliferate Strategy Guide
Proliferate decks are for players who want one trigger to move several counter-based plans forward at the same time. This strategy wants to place useful counters first, using +1/+1 counters, poison, loyalty, charge counters, and repeatable proliferate commanders, to win through a grown board, planeswalker ultimates, or the final poison counter. Unlike +1/+1 Counters, Proliferate multiplies any counter type rather than only creature size, and unlike Infect it can use poison as one route without making ten poison the whole plan. Counter synergy EDH decks built around proliferate reward pilots who seed the right counters, then chain small increases until every permanent matters.
+1/+1 Counters Strategy Guide
+1/+1 counter decks are for players who want small creature upgrades to become permanent pressure across the board. This strategy wants to grow creatures over several turns, using +1/+1 counter commanders, counter doublers, and counter payoffs, to win through combat damage from creatures that keep getting larger. Unlike Tokens, Counters grows creatures over time instead of making many bodies, and unlike Voltron it spreads power beyond one attacker; unlike Proliferate, it focuses on +1/+1 growth rather than every counter type, while Infect is a separate poison plan. Counters matter decks reward pilots who sequence early creatures, multipliers, and protection so each trigger converts into lasting board presence.
Artifacts Strategy Guide
Artifact decks are for players who want cheap permanents, mana rocks, and utility pieces to become one connected engine. This strategy wants to build artifact count and mana density, using artifact commanders, cost reducers, Treasure, recursion, and untap effects, to win through construct armies, loops, or artifact payoffs. Unlike Equipment, it cares about every artifact rather than just weapons, and unlike Ramp it turns the mana rocks themselves into the engine instead of only casting bigger spells. The best artifact decks EDH players build reward careful sequencing because each small piece can convert the next piece into more mana or cards.
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