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Temur Sabertooth

Creature — Cat

{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Year of the Tiger 2022
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1723
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Temur Sabertooth card art
Temur Sabertooth's ability to return any creature to your hand for 1G — at instant speed, repeatedly — is the engine behind some of Commander's most degenerate infinite mana loops, most of them enabled by Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Yisan, the Wanderer Bard. The 4/3 body is incidental; you're here for the bounce.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

66.9% of decks · synergy 0.60

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard tutors Temur Sabertooth onto the battlefield, and from there the Sabertooth lets Yisan bounce and replay enter-the-battlefield creatures to reset verse counters and chain through the whole creature toolbox in a single turn.

02
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

48.3% of decks · synergy 0.42

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds is the most common combo partner — bouncing and replaying a large creature with Temur Sabertooth generates more mana from Selvala than the bounce costs, producing infinite mana and infinite enters-the-battlefield triggers.

03
Maelstrom Wanderer

Maelstrom Wanderer

42.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Maelstrom Wanderer cascades into expensive creatures, and Temur Sabertooth lets you bounce and recast the Wanderer to cascade again, building an overwhelming board in a single turn.

04
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Volo, Guide to Monsters

33.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Volo, Guide to Monsters copies every non-Human creature spell you cast, and Temur Sabertooth lets you bounce and replay key creatures to retrigger Volo's copy effect as many times as you can pay 1G.

05
Zacama, Primal Calamity

Zacama, Primal Calamity

34.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Zacama, Primal Calamity untaps all lands when it enters the battlefield, and Temur Sabertooth converts that land untap into an infinite loop by bouncing and replaying Zacama repeatedly for infinite mana and enters-the-battlefield triggers.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Temur Sabertooth is a Commander card — full stop. The combo infrastructure it relies on (mana dorks, big creatures with tap abilities, enters-the-battlefield payoffs) simply doesn't assemble quickly enough for Legacy or Modern, where four mana and a 4/3 with no immediate impact is a losing proposition. In Pioneer it's equally irrelevant; the format's aggressive threats punish slow, synergy-dependent setups. Commander is the only format where Temur Sabertooth is genuinely format-warping, because singleton construction and longer game lengths give it time to find its partners, and the payoff — infinite mana, infinite ETBs — closes games at a cEDH-relevant speed.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

4,229 decks
Temur SabertoothHyrax Tower ScoutPriest of Titania

Temur SabertoothHyrax Tower ScoutPriest of Titania

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite blinking of some creatures; Infinite green mana

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Temur Sabertooth isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its ubiquity as a combo piece across multiple cEDH and high-power Commander builds, it has historically stayed accessible — but confirmed pricing should come from a live source.

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