Telepathy
Enchantment
Your opponents play with their hands revealed.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.69
- EDHREC rank
- #5419
Telepathy hits the table on turn one and every opponent plays with their hand face-up for the rest of the game — that's a permanent, asymmetric information advantage for one blue mana. It's the best blue enchantment nobody argues about: Sen Triplets decks run it above 55% of the time for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets needs to know what's in an opponent's hand before deciding whose cards to steal, and Telepathy removes all guesswork — it turns the commander's ability from a coin flip into a precision tool.
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Baral, Chief of Compliance is a permission deck that wants to know exactly when it's safe to tap out, and Telepathy converts every opponent's hand into a public threat assessment so you counter what matters and let the rest resolve.
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin exiles the top card of an opponent's library and lets you play it — Telepathy ensures you're targeting the opponent whose hand can't answer what you're about to steal.
Círdan the Shipwright
Círdan the Shipwright draws into answers and filters consistently, and Telepathy lets you sequence those answers with full knowledge of what each opponent is holding, turning Círdan's card advantage into decision-making superiority.
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 |
Commander is where Telepathy is most powerful — three opponents means three open hands, and one mana buys that advantage indefinitely in a format with no rotation. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a do-nothing enchantment to matter, and sideboard slots go to disruption with immediate impact. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, where the four-player pod structure makes the information advantage almost as valuable as it is in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.69 bulk tier
At $0.69, Telepathy sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up in any commons-and-uncommons bin. That price is stable; it's not a card that spikes, it just gets quietly sleeved into blue control and theft decks without ceremony.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.