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Teferi, Temporal Archmage

Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
−1: Untap up to four target permanents.
−10: 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."
Teferi, Temporal Archmage can be your commander.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4176
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Teferi, Temporal Archmage card art
Teferi, Temporal Archmage is one of the most powerful planeswalkers ever printed in Commander — his minus ability untaps four permanents, which with The Chain Veil in play creates an engine that generates infinite loyalty activations and effectively infinite mana. The cost is a six-mana investment into a card that does nothing if the table answers it immediately, so you need a protected board to get value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

61.7% of decks · synergy 0.59

Commodore Guff appears in over 60% of Teferi, Temporal Archmage lists because Guff's passive generates loyalty counters on other planeswalkers, keeping Teferi fueled for repeated minus activations without depleting him toward his ultimate.

02
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

35.4% of decks · synergy 0.34

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles proliferate triggers, and Teferi, Temporal Archmage's ultimate puts a chain-veil-style emblem on the stack that wants as many loyalty counters as possible to reach — proliferate accelerates that clock dramatically.

03
Gogo, Master of Mimicry

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.23

Gogo, Master of Mimicry copies permanents, and a second Teferi, Temporal Archmage means a second set of untap triggers each turn, compounding the mana advantage and pushing the Chain Veil combo into redundancy.

04

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

13.9% of decks · synergy 0.14

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager decks run a heavy blue-black shell that wants high-impact six-drops, and Teferi, Temporal Archmage fits that curve while providing the kind of repeatable card advantage and mana acceleration that closes games in grindy Grixis builds.

05

Esika, God of the Tree

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.13

Esika, God of the Tree's five-color Prismatic Bridge side can cheat Teferi, Temporal Archmage into play for free, bypassing the six-mana cost entirely and immediately threatening the untap engine.

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, Temporal Archmage was designed to live — the singleton format means the Chain Veil combo is a one-of engine rather than a redundant kill condition, and the multiplayer table gives Teferi time to build loyalty before opponents can coordinate an answer. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana is a prohibitive rate for a planeswalker with no immediate board impact, and faster formats have no patience for a value engine that needs a full turn to fire. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Teferi, Temporal Archmage sees real play, where his minus ability as a signature spell target generates obscene mana in the right shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Teferi, Temporal Archmage isn't available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number, as prices on older mythics with known combo applications can shift with reprint announcements. Given the card's role as the centerpiece of a Commander combo that generates infinite mana, it has historically commanded a premium over similarly costed planeswalkers with no combo upside.

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