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Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi · {4}{U}{U} · Blue commander
What Teferi, Temporal Archmage actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
- Activated ability−1: Untap up to four target permanents.
- Activated ability−10: You get an emblem
What a Teferi, Temporal Archmage deck needs
Plays as planeswalker. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ways to keep the commander planeswalker alive (blockers, fogs, pillowfort), loyalty growth (proliferate, loyalty boosters) and planeswalker synergies — it must survive a turn cycle to work
The Teferi, Temporal Archmage deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- 12× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Thrummingbird2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Dreamtide Whale3 mana
- Flux Channeler3 mana
- Staff of Compleation3 mana
- Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
- Throne of Geth2 mana
Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Surgehacker Mech4 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Otawara, Soaring City0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Haven of the Spirit Dragon0 mana
- Spark Double4 mana
- Sunscorched Desert0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Icy Prison2 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Teferi, Temporal Archmage is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + The Chain Veil24,745 decks
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + The Chain Veil + Carth The Lion9,139 decks
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + Lithoform Engine2,087 decks
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + Aminatou, The Fateshifter + Spark Double + Rings Of Brighthearth475 decks
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + Sensei's Divining Top + Displacer Kitten + Oath Of Teferi247 decks
- Teferi, Temporal Archmage + Displacer Kitten + Clockspinning54 decks
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