Magic has printed nine different Tezzeret planeswalkers since 2008, from the original Shards of Alara artificer to a colorless version debuting in 2025's Edge of Eternities.
Every one of them shares the same blue-black artifact identity in spirit, but their actual power level and design swing wildly across seventeen years of card design.
This guide ranks all nine by exact rules text, artifact scaling, and how each one actually performs at a real Commander table.
If you only have room in your deck for one or two, this is where to start.
Every Tezzeret here is evaluated on three things: how cheap and reliable its best ability is to use, how well it scales with a realistic artifact count rather than a maximum-density build, and how much genuine board impact it creates once active.
This is a Commander-focused ranking, not a competitive constructed one, since none of the nine currently see regular play in tournament-legal formats outside Commander and casual artifact shells.
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge tops the list. Its affinity-for-artifacts static ability discounts every creature and planeswalker you cast, and its +2 both drains opponents and gains you life scaled to your artifact count, a genuinely explosive engine once your board fills out.
Tezzeret, the Seeker sits just behind it. The −X ability that tutors any artifact straight onto the battlefield for free is still one of the most efficient artifact tutors in the game, and its iconic status as the original Tezzeret only adds to its appeal.
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas punches well above its three-mana cost, offering repeatable card selection with its +1 and a scaling drain at −4 that reaches lethal totals faster than its low starting loyalty would suggest.
Tezzeret, Artifice Master is a steady card-advantage engine, its 0 ability draws one card normally and two with three or more artifacts on board, making it hard to ever activate at a loss.
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh offers looting and a cost reduction on artifact activated abilities, useful in the right shell but generally overshadowed by the more direct payoffs above it on this list.
Tezzeret the Schemer generates mana through Etherium Cell tokens and can shrink a blocker with its −2, a fine toolbox piece but rarely a first pick when better options exist at similar cost.
Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist and Tezzeret, Cruel Captain round out the bottom of the list. Cruel Machinist's card draw is solid but its temporary 5/5 animation ability is easy to play around, while Cruel Captain, Magic's first colorless Tezzeret from Edge of Eternities, needs a steady stream of artifacts entering the battlefield to build loyalty at all.
Tezzeret, Master of Metal, the face card of the 2017 Aether Revolt Planeswalker Deck, closes out the ranking. Its abilities are functional but consistently below the rate set by the rest of the line.
If you are starting a Tezzeret Commander deck from scratch, Master of the Bridge or the Seeker are the strongest anchors, since both reward the same wide-artifact-count strategy that the rest of your deck should already be pursuing.
If you already own several Tezzerets, there is nothing stopping you from running two or three in the same 99, since none of them are Commander-legal generals and their abilities layer cleanly on top of each other.
When Tezzeret, the Seeker was the only option in 2008, ranking the line was trivial, but each new release since has forced a real reassessment of where the older cards actually stand.
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain's 2025 arrival is the most recent shakeup, introducing a colorless design philosophy that plays by genuinely different rules than every blue-black Tezzeret before it.
Collecting a single copy of all nine currently runs from a few dollars for the cheapest entries up to a real premium for the original Shards of Alara mythic, making a complete set a realistic goal for most budgets.
Chasing specific alternate-art or Secret Lair versions on top of the base set is where the cost climbs meaningfully higher.
Nine, from Shards of Alara in 2008 through Edge of Eternities in 2025.
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, thanks to its affinity static ability and scaling drain.
Yes, none of them are Commander-legal generals, so multiples can share the same 99.
Tezzeret, Master of Metal, the Aether Revolt Planeswalker Deck exclusive.
Chasing all nine across seventeen years of sets means juggling a real range of set symbols, rarities, and foil treatments. An EVORETRO magnetic deck box keeps whichever Tezzerets make your final 99 protected and ready between games.
Whichever ones you end up playing, the sheer range across this line, from a $3 tutor to a colorless spacefaring loyalty engine, says a lot about how far artifact-matters design has come since 2008.
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