Smoke Teller
Creature — Human Shaman
: Look at target face-down creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30966
Smoke Teller lets you look at any face-down creature at any time — a permanent, free answer to morph and disguise decks that never turns off. Two mana for a 2/2 body is the floor; the ability is the reason you're here.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Smoke Teller is a niche answer to morph-heavy commanders like Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer — it costs you nothing to activate, so the information is always available. Outside of Commander, morph is rare enough in competitive formats that Smoke Teller almost never earns a slot in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer. Pauper is its only other realistic home, and only if a morph-centric deck emerges in the meta.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Smoke Teller is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. That price reflects the narrow use case: it holds no crossover value outside morph matchups, so don't expect movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.