Temporal Aperture
Artifact
, 
: Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. Until end of turn, for as long as that card remains on top of your library, play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play that card without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $4.99
- EDHREC rank
- #22763
Temporal Aperture shuffles your library and casts the top card for free — repeatable impulse draw stapled to a five-mana artifact you can activate every turn. The setup cost is real, but any deck that wants free spells and doesn't mind variance runs it without apology.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Temporal Aperture actually lives — 100-card singleton variance means you rarely whiff on something castable, and repeat activations over a long game compound fast. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but five mana and a tap activation compete poorly against faster engines in those formats, so it sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker can use it but the smaller deck size makes the shuffle-and-cast less reliable than in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.99 cheap tier
At $4.99, Temporal Aperture sits at the cheap end of repeatable free-cast effects, which is the right price for a card with this much variance baked in. It's a stable spec for casual Commander shelves — not appreciating, not collapsing.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.