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Tellah, Great Sage

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token. If four or more mana was spent to cast that spell, draw two cards. If eight or more mana was spent to cast that spell, sacrifice Tellah and it deals that much damage to each opponent.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{R}
Color identity
RU
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.68
EDHREC rank
#9758
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Tellah, Great Sage card art
Tellah, Great Sage drops onto the battlefield and immediately lets you cast a spell from your graveyard for free — the payoff is front-loaded and real. The cost is the deck-building constraint: commanders like Ashling, Rekindled and The Emperor of Palamecia are built to exploit that trigger, but in a generic pile Tellah is just a 4/4 that fires once and sits there.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ashling, Rekindled

36.8% of decks · synergy 0.34

Ashling, Rekindled self-mills aggressively and wants spells in the graveyard to recur, so Tellah, Great Sage entering and flashing back a high-value instant or sorcery is exactly the free-roll the deck is hunting for.

02

The Emperor of Palamecia

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.27

The Emperor of Palamecia rewards running the Final Fantasy suite, and Tellah, Great Sage is a core piece of that thematic engine — the enter-the-battlefield recast trigger synergizes with the token and spell-value gameplan the Emperor is already assembling.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Tellah, Great Sage actually matters — a free spell from the graveyard on an ETB is a strong enters-the-battlefield payoff in a format where reanimation and blink effects are everywhere. Outside Commander, Tellah competes in an environment where four mana for a 4/4 with a one-time effect needs to clear a much higher bar; there's no competitive Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy shell currently asking for it. Standard and Oathbreaker are theoretically legal, but Tellah's ceiling there is purely casual — the effect isn't efficient enough to warp any non-Commander format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.68 bulk tier

At $0.68, Tellah, Great Sage sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate for a card with a narrow but real Commander home. Bulk rares with tribal or thematic identity in popular precon-adjacent space tend to hold the floor rather than crater further, so don't expect it to move much in either direction.

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