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Teferi, Master of Time

Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
−3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
−10: Take two extra turns after this one.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Core Set 2021
Price
$10.47
EDHREC rank
#2123
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Teferi, Master of Time card art
Teferi, Master of Time activates on every player's turn, meaning he ticks up to his ultimate at a pace no other planeswalker matches without help — and in planeswalker-heavy decks running Ichormoon Gauntlet or Commodore Guff, that clock accelerates further. Four mana for a planeswalker that phases out blockers, filters draws, and threatens a time-stop emblem within two full turns around the table is a real rate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

50.8% of decks · synergy 0.48

Commodore Guff's static ability adds a loyalty counter to each other planeswalker you control at the start of your turn, which stacks with Teferi, Master of Time activating on every player's turn — the two together push Teferi's emblem from a late-game dream into a mid-game inevitability.

02
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

47.7% of decks · synergy 0.43

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, and Teferi, Master of Time is one of the better targets for that effect given how aggressively he accumulates loyalty on his own — pairing the two means the emblem arrives even faster than normal.

03
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

38.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer casts spells from the graveyard, and Teferi, Master of Time's discard-then-draw minus ability feeds the bin while filtering toward what Oskar needs — the card flows naturally into that engine without feeling like a staple jammed in for value.

04
Minn, Wily Illusionist

Minn, Wily Illusionist

37.5% of decks · synergy 0.33

Minn, Wily Illusionist triggers off drawing your second card each turn, and Teferi, Master of Time's plus ability does exactly that on each opponent's turn as well — two extra Illusion tokens per rotation is a meaningful rate of board development.

05
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.33

The Watcher in the Water generates tentacle tokens as you phase in creatures, and Teferi, Master of Time's minus phases out your own permanents — combining them on an end step creates a steady token drip while also protecting your board from targeted removal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the obvious home for Teferi, Master of Time — four opponents means four activations per full rotation, which is a rate no other constructed format can replicate. In Modern and Pioneer the multi-activation upside collapses to one per turn cycle, making him a slow, expensive threat in a landscape that demands immediate impact; control decks in those formats generally prefer planeswalkers that stabilize the board on entry rather than building toward an emblem. Legacy has the redundancy and velocity to support value-oriented planeswalkers, but the competition for four-mana blue slots is stiff. Oathbreaker is the format where he shines second-brightest after Commander — as a planeswalker himself, he can be your Oathbreaker, and the faster game pace means his emblem lands before the game is already decided.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If the sticker price is the obstacle, Narset, Parter of Veils covers the card-advantage angle at under a dollar, though she's a one-shot effect rather than a repeating engine. Jace, Unraveler of Secrets offers the phasing and draw-filtering in a broadly slower package for around two dollars — it does less on opponents' turns but comes close to the same strategic role when the multi-activation upside isn't why you're running Teferi, Master of Time in the first place.

Price Context

Current price

$10.47 mid tier

At $10.47, Teferi, Master of Time sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that planeswalker-themed and proliferate decks treat it as a near-staple. Demand is consistent across multiple synergistic commander archetypes, so the price is unlikely to collapse unless a reprint hits a widely-opened product.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.