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Temple Bell

Artifact

{T}: Each player draws a card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Price
$9.23
EDHREC rank
#1963
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Temple Bell card art
Temple Bell is a three-mana artifact that taps to draw everyone a card — symmetrical, political, and a combo piece the moment Mind Over Matter hits the table. Outside of dedicated group-hug or infinite-draw shells like Zurzoth, Chaos Rider, you're handing opponents cards for free, so it needs a plan to exploit that symmetry.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider

Zurzoth, Chaos Rider

84.3% of decks · synergy 0.83

Zurzoth, Chaos Rider triggers on each opponent drawing their first card each turn, so Temple Bell turning into a repeatable 'make a Devil token' engine is the entire reason it shows up in 84% of Zurzoth lists.

02
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

59.6% of decks · synergy 0.58

Ian Malcolm, Chaotician rewards chaotic, everyone-draws effects with cascading Chaos triggers, and Temple Bell is one of the cleanest ways to fire those triggers on a schedule every turn.

04
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

58.4% of decks · synergy 0.55

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler does the same job as Temple Bell on a body, and running both doubles the rate at which the group-hug engine fires — Temple Bell's artifact type also makes it harder to remove than the commander.

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

Commander is where Temple Bell actually lives — the symmetrical draw is a feature, not a bug, when you're built around it, and three players drawing cards is fuel for any engine that cares about opponents' card draws. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially irrelevant; dedicated draw engines and cantrips are faster and don't gift opponents resources. Modern has better options for any strategy that wants a tappable draw artifact, and the competitive formats simply outpace a tap-to-draw-one effect at three mana. Oathbreaker is worth a mention: the smaller table size blunts the symmetry downside, and if your planeswalker punishes opponent draws it can shine there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

2,230 decks
Mind Over MatterTemple Bell

Mind Over MatterTemple Bell

Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite card draw for each opponent; Near-infinite draw triggers for each opponent

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Howling Mine does the same job at two mana for under a dollar — it's always on rather than activated, which is better for sustained draw but worse if you need to hold the ability up politically. Font of Mythos scales the effect up and costs slightly more than Temple Bell at retail, but if you just want cheap group-hug draw redundancy, Howling Mine is the honest replacement; you lose the activated-ability clause that combos like Mind Over Matter require, so it's not a true substitute in combo builds.

Price Context

Current price

$9.23 mid tier

At $9.23, Temple Bell sits in the mid tier — not a budget pickup, but not a barrier either. It holds that price primarily because of its combo demand in Mind Over Matter and Zurzoth lists; as long as those archetypes stay popular the floor is stable.

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