- Commander Nexus
- Commanders
- Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
Command zone
Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid // Legendary Creature — Elf Warlock
Trystan wants a deck that gains life over and over and gets rewarded for it. It also suits a deck that fills its discard pile and plays cards back out of it.
- Mana cost
- Black, Green ()
- Power / toughness3 / 4
- RarityRare
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Trystan, Callous Cultivator, mill three cards. Then if there is an Elf card in your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay 
. If you do, transform Trystan.
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Deathtouch
Whenever this creature transforms into Trystan, Penitent Culler, mill three cards, then you may exile an Elf card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life.
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay . If you do, transform Trystan.
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- Archetypes
Cards That Fit Trystan, Callous Cultivator
Picked for what they do in Trystan's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Trystan's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Rulings for Trystan, Callous Cultivator
explain how Trystan works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all.
In some rare cases, this permanent might transform while its triggered ability that allows you to pay mana to transform it is still on the stack. (For example, another effect might cause that ability to trigger an additional time.) In such a case, even if you pay mana as the triggered ability resolves, this permanent won't transform because it already transformed while the triggered ability was on the stack.
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Oko, Lorwyn Liege's color identity is green and blue, since its front face is blue, its rules text contains a green mana symbol, and its back face has a green color indicator as well as a blue mana symbol in its rules text.
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
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