Telemin Performance
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into their graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.68
- EDHREC rank
- #18260
Telemin Performance mills an opponent's library until it hits a creature, puts that creature onto your battlefield, and exiles everything else revealed — a single card that can steal a commander, a combo piece, or an eldrazi for six mana. The cost is real: it whiffs on creature-light decks and does nothing at instant speed, so it earns its slot in blue decks built around copying spells, not as a generic blue staple.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Zevlor, Elturel Exile turns Telemin Performance from a single theft into a table-wide heist — his ability copies the spell for each opponent beyond the first, meaning one cast can strip the best creature from every deck at a four-player table simultaneously.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Telemin Performance is a Commander card through and through — the format's large libraries, creature-dense strategies, and powerful individual creatures make the payoff consistent enough to justify six mana. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; faster formats reward you for ending games before turn four, and a sorcery-speed six-drop that might hand you a Gray Ogre doesn't compete. Oathbreaker can support it in the same spell-copying shells that Commander does, though the smaller card pool limits those synergies. If you're not in a 100-card format, leave it there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.68 bulk tier
At $0.68, Telemin Performance sits firmly in bulk territory, which is about right for a card with a narrow but real niche. Its price is stable — casual Commander demand keeps it from bottoming out completely, but it's not climbing without a new high-profile combo partner.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Zevlor, Elturel Exile
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.