Temur Ascendancy
Enchantment
Creatures you control have haste.
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $2.58
- EDHREC rank
- #875
Temur Ascendancy gives every creature with power 4 or greater an enters-the-battlefield card draw trigger and hands your whole board haste — for three mana across three colors. Something like Hullbreaker Horror draws you a card the moment it lands and swings immediately, which is the kind of compounding value that makes Ureni of the Unwritten decks nearly unanimous on running it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ureni of the Unwritten
Ureni of the Unwritten is built to slam large creatures repeatedly, and Temur Ascendancy turns every one of those entries into a free card draw while making sure the creature can attack the same turn it arrives — 92% inclusion is a foregone conclusion.
Eshki, Temur's Roar
Eshki, Temur's Roar rewards going wide and tall with big creatures, and Temur Ascendancy doubles down on that plan by drawing a card off each one and keeping the pressure on through immediate haste.
The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon's dragons are almost universally power-4-or-greater, so Temur Ascendancy functions as a redundant haste anthem and a draw engine that fires on every dragon that touches the battlefield.
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm creates token copies of each dragon that enters, and Temur Ascendancy draws a card off both the original and the copy — the card-draw velocity in that shell gets out of hand quickly.
Surrak Dragonclaw
Surrak Dragonclaw already grants creatures you cast uncounterability, and pairing that with Temur Ascendancy's haste means threats land protected and swinging the same turn, closing windows for interaction entirely.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Temur Ascendancy is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no competitive play outside Commander — three-mana enchantments that don't immediately affect the board are too slow for 60-card formats where the game can end before the payoff matters. In Commander it earns its slot because the format's longer games give it time to generate multiple triggers, and the haste clause is a real combat advantage in a multiplayer environment where summoning sickness costs a full rotation around the table. The card is at its best in big-creature or creature-flood strategies, particularly Temur and five-color shells where the color requirement is trivially met.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hullbreaker HorrorSelvala, Heart of the WildsTemur Ascendancy
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite storm count
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Garth One-EyeDisplacer KittenTemur Ascendancy
Infinite colored mana; Infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite copies of a specific artifact; Infinite casts of all spells created by Garth One-Eye except Shivan Dragon
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Garth One-EyeDeadeye NavigatorTemur Ascendancy
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite casts of all spells permitted by Garth One-Eye; Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of a specific artifact; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinitely powerful creature until end of turn; Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand
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Horde of NotionsJegantha, the WellspringAshling's CommandTemur Ascendancy
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite colored mana; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite token copies of Elementals you control with haste; Infinite creature tokens with haste
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Selvala, Heart of the WildsDeadeye NavigatorTemur Ascendancy
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite blinking
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Current price
$2.58 cheap tier
At $2.58, Temur Ascendancy sits in the cheap tier — a low barrier to entry for a card that appears in tens of thousands of decks. That kind of widespread demand tends to keep a floor under the price rather than push it toward bulk, so it's unlikely to get cheaper.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.