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Teferi's Talent

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant planeswalker
Enchanted planeswalker has "[−12]: You get an emblem with 'You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.'"
Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on enchanted planeswalker.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine Commander
Price
$0.42
EDHREC rank
#8638
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Teferi's Talent card art
Teferi's Talent is a planeswalker-tribal enchantment that puts a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control at the beginning of your upkeep — free incremental value that scales hard with wide boards. Commodore Guff and O'aka, Traveling Merchant both point toward the same shell: the more planeswalkers you're running, the more broken this gets.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

32.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Commodore Guff is the natural home — his static ability already adds loyalty counters to your other planeswalkers, and Teferi's Talent stacks directly on top of that engine, meaning every upkeep your entire board ticks up twice and threatens ultimates several turns ahead of schedule.

02
Sivitri, Dragon Master

Sivitri, Dragon Master

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.26

Sivitri, Dragon Master runs a tight Esper planeswalker package, and Teferi's Talent accelerates every walker toward an ultimate in a shell that otherwise lacks dedicated loyalty-doubling effects.

03

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

13.9% of decks · synergy 0.14

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager flips into a planeswalker himself, and Teferi's Talent gives the Grixis superfriends builds surrounding him a low-cost way to push every walker toward their most impactful abilities faster.

04
Elminster

Elminster

14.7% of decks · synergy 0.14

Elminster generates lore counters and scry effects tied to spellcasting, and Teferi's Talent fits naturally into the blue-heavy planeswalker-dense lists that surround him, where the free upkeep loyalty padding can push walkers out of removal range.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Teferi's Talent lives — the format's longer games and planeswalker-tribal commanders give the enchantment room to compound over multiple upkeeps in ways that faster formats never allow. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; neither format has the planeswalker density or the slow enough clock to make a do-nothing enchantment worth a slot. Oathbreaker is the sleeper format for this card, since your oathbreaker is always a planeswalker and the counter accumulation starts immediately.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.42 bulk tier

At $0.42, Teferi's Talent is firmly bulk, and the price reflects its narrow home in planeswalker-tribal Commander rather than any broad demand. It holds that floor as long as superfriends stays a casual archetype — no spike risk, no urgency, just an easy pickup when you're building the right deck.

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