Is Eldrazi Temple good in Commander?

Eldrazi Temple in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Eldrazi Temple taps for two mana on any Eldrazi spell or ability, which is the kind of acceleration that warps your curve on the cards that matter most. It enters untapped, costs nothing to run, and in any dedicated Eldrazi shell — especially under Ulalek, Fused Atrocity — it's an auto-include with no serious argument against it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

91.0% of decks · synergy 0.85

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity copies every Eldrazi spell you cast for free when you cast another, meaning the faster you land your first Eldrazi, the sooner the chain starts — Eldrazi Temple shaves a full turn off that clock.

02

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

51.5% of decks · synergy 0.51

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite wants to emerge as early as possible, and Eldrazi Temple's double-mana contribution toward colorless costs helps you hit that threshold before opponents can stabilize.

03

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

95.8% of decks · synergy 0.46

Zhulodok, Void Gorger cascades twice off every colorless spell with mana value seven or greater, so every land that accelerates you toward those spells compounds the payoff — Eldrazi Temple shows up in nearly 96% of Zhulodok lists for exactly that reason.

04

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

86.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

Getting Kozilek, the Great Distortion into play refills your hand and gives you a counterspell engine, so the sooner he lands the better — Eldrazi Temple is one of the most consistent ways to shave a turn off that timeline.

05

Kruphix, God of Horizons

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Kruphix, God of Horizons banks unused mana across turns as colorless, making it a natural shell for large Eldrazi finishers — Eldrazi Temple feeds that pool efficiently and shows up in nearly a quarter of Kruphix builds that go that direction.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Eldrazi Temple does its best work — the singleton rule means you run it once and it's always pulling its weight, and the format's longer games give you time to deploy the threats it accelerates. In Modern, it sees play in dedicated Eldrazi Tron and colorless Eldrazi aggro shells, where the free extra mana on Eldrazi Mimic or Thought-Knot Seer is a genuine tempo swing. Legacy allows it, but the format is fast enough that colorless Eldrazi strategies are fringe; the Temple is legal but rarely the card the deck is built around. Vintage similarly permits it, though the raw power of the format leaves little room for a strategy that leans this hard on creature threats. Pioneer and Standard have never seen Eldrazi Temple, and Pauper's rarity restrictions keep it out — so if you're sleeving it up, you're almost certainly doing it in Commander or a 60-card non-rotating format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.60 cheap tier

At $2.60, Eldrazi Temple sits in comfortable budget territory for a land that pulls this much weight in dedicated shells — it's been reprinted often enough to stay accessible without becoming a throwaway rare. It's a staple rather than a spec, so the price is stable; buy it when you need it, don't chase it.