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Tel-Jilad Stylus

Artifact

{T}: Put target permanent you own on the bottom of your library.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Mirrodin
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#12426
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Tel-Jilad Stylus card art
Tel-Jilad Stylus puts any artifact on the bottom of its owner's library for one mana — a cheap, repeatable reset that doubles as graveyard hate and library manipulation. It's a bulk card that earns its slot almost exclusively in combo contexts: Zur the Enchanter runs it to shuffle back pieces that get exiled, and Grenzo, Dungeon Warden abuses it to guarantee the card on the bottom of the library before activating.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

54.2% of decks · synergy 0.53

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden flips the bottom card of the library and puts it into play if its power matches Grenzo's +1/+1 counter count — Tel-Jilad Stylus lets you place exactly the creature you want there on demand, turning Grenzo's activation from a gamble into a tutor.

02
River Song

River Song

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

River Song cares about casting spells from the top of the library, and Tel-Jilad Stylus gives her decks a way to bury artifacts they've already used or don't want on top, keeping the stack clean for her triggers.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Tel-Jilad Stylus is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it only sees play in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the effect is too narrow and too slow to compete — one mana for a library shuffle on an artifact is not a rate those formats respect. Commander is where Tel-Jilad Stylus finds its niche: the 100-card singleton environment rewards precise library manipulation, and the card's interaction with bottom-of-library commanders like Grenzo, Dungeon Warden gives it a repeatable role no other card fills as cheaply.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Tel-Jilad Stylus is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a very specific job. It won't appreciate unless a new commander that abuses bottom-of-library effects breaks out, so grab it for the combo and don't expect it to be worth more than a draft pick anytime soon.

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