Temporal Adept
Creature — Human Wizard
, 
: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #22428
Temporal Adept puts a permanent bounce on the board that opponents have to answer immediately — the threat of returning The One Ring, a problematic commander, or any resolved threat on every upkeep is enough to warp how the table plays. The cost is real: three blue mana per activation is brutal in multi-color decks, and the Adept itself is a 1/1 that dies to everything.
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 |
Temporal Adept is a Commander card through and through — the slow, repeatable pressure it applies is most valuable in a format where games go long and individual permanents carry outsized weight. In Legacy and Vintage it's simply too slow and too mana-intensive to compete with the format's velocity. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it can find a home, specifically in blue control shells that want a permanent bounce engine rather than a one-shot spell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The One RingTemporal Adept
Lock; Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; You have protection from everything
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Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Temporal Adept sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects honest supply — it's never been a chase card and isn't trending toward one. Bulk status here is fine: you're buying the effect, not the cardboard, and the effect is worth the thirty-nine cents.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.