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Teleportation Circle

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source Material
Price
$3.75
EDHREC rank
#1007
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Teleportation Circle card art
Teleportation Circle blinks a nonland permanent you control at end of turn, every turn, for the low price of four mana once and nothing thereafter. In any deck that wants repeated ETB triggers — and there are many — it generates compounding value that opponents have to answer or lose to, and commanders like Wernog, Rider's Chaplain and Preston, the Vanisher treat it as a core engine piece rather than a nice-to-have.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Preston, the Vanisher

Preston, the Vanisher

76.8% of decks · synergy 0.68

Preston, the Vanisher creates a Illusion token whenever a non-Illusion creature enters from a blink effect, so Teleportation Circle firing every end step means a free 1/1 every single turn at minimum — and more if you stack other blink targets alongside it.

02
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

66.6% of decks · synergy 0.62

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year cares about casting and playing cards, and Teleportation Circle gives her a reliable way to reset ETB creatures each turn, keeping the engine churning without requiring additional mana investment past the initial four.

03
Niko, Light of Hope

Niko, Light of Hope

66.2% of decks · synergy 0.57

Niko, Light of Hope generates Shard tokens off ETB and other triggers, and Teleportation Circle turns any creature with a relevant enter-the-battlefield ability into a shard factory that resets on schedule every end step.

04
Malik, Grim Manipulator

Malik, Grim Manipulator

57.3% of decks · synergy 0.56

Malik, Grim Manipulator forces opponents to exile their own creatures when yours die or enter, and Teleportation Circle lets Malik repeatedly re-enter a key creature to keep triggering that exile pressure turn after turn.

05
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

60.5% of decks · synergy 0.52

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines doubles every ETB trigger your permanents have, so Teleportation Circle blinking any creature under her effectively generates two triggers per end step — the synergy compounds fast enough that the Circle is in over 60% of Elesh Norn decks for good reason.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Teleportation Circle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually lives. In 60-card formats, a four-mana enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters and requires other creatures to be worthwhile is too slow and too dependent on board state to see competitive play. Commander flips both of those liabilities into assets: the game goes long, your opponents can't efficiently race a card that generates value for free every turn, and the ETB-matters creature density in most powered decks is high enough that Teleportation Circle almost always has a target. Oathbreaker can support it in the right build, but the pressure on mana is tighter and the games shorter, so it's a conditional inclusion there rather than an auto-include.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

816 decks
Azor, the LawbringerTeleportation Circle

Azor, the LawbringerTeleportation Circle

Opponents can't cast instant spells during their turns; Opponents can't cast sorcery spells; Lock

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Price Context

Current price

$3.75 cheap tier

At $3.75, Teleportation Circle sits in the cheap tier and is fairly priced for a card with this much Commander demand — it's a build-around engine piece, not a bulk rare. Given how deeply it's embedded in ETB and blink strategies, the price is unlikely to crater, though it's not the kind of card that spikes dramatically either.

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