First printed in Antiquities (1994)
All 6 prints
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Artifact Creature — Construct
Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted."
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
1/1
- Illustrated by
- Mark Tedin
Tetravus legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (4)
- Any +1/+1 counter which is on this card can be turned into a Tetravite token. It does not care where the +1/+1 counter came from.
- If the Tetravus is destroyed when the Tetravites are off the card, they are not destroyed, they are just orphaned.
- Only Tetravites from this specific Tetravus may be used for the ability. Ones from a different Tetravus can't.
- This card now has two upkeep-triggered abilities. Its controller chooses the order they are put on the stack, and thus the order in which they resolve each upkeep.
Prices
Paper price: €0.96 / $1.89 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 8 Nov 2026).
MTGO price: 0.04 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 8 Nov 2026).
Combos
2 combos, the most popular first:
- Lock, Infinite turns: Cathars' Crusade + Sage of Hours + Tetravus
- Infinite turns, Lock: Doubling Season + Tetravus + Time Sieve