How Good is Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir?
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Posted on Aug. 3, 2024, 6:43 p.m. by DemonDragonJ
I have copies of Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir in many of my EDH decks, because his abilities are quite nice, but I recently have been re-evaluating my decision to have him in every deck that supports his colors, because his own mana cost is very color-heavy, he draws ire from my opponents, and he may not necessarily fit the theme of each deck, since I made many of my EDH decks when the format was still new, so I wish to ask for advice from the other users here.
How good is Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, and should I keep him in all of my decks, or only in decks in which he matches the theme of the deck?
wallisface says... #3
Its a card that doesn’t do anything by itself, so unless you have creature that really benefit from being flashed-in, or a fragile combo-deck that needs to avoid being interrupted, I don’t see what its value is.
August 3, 2024 9:18 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #4
wallisface, for me, his main value was restricting my opponents, but I only recently realized that doing that will be essentially painting a giant target on my forehead, so I have decided to remove him from most of my decks, except for those in which he fits the deck's theme, such as this one.
August 3, 2024 9:54 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #5
I realize that this was posted in the General forum, but the subject is EDH decks so I wouldn't even say it is "fragile combo decks" that the protection is good for. It is any combo deck and could even be used to protect large haymakers in non-combo decks. However; with a triple colored mana cost and 5 MV you better have a damn good reason to include Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir. If you would even consider cutting Teferi from a deck, you should cut Teferi from that deck. He isn't a goodstuff card. Personally I'm not a fan of goodstuff decks anyway.
DoomNoodle says... #2
His statics are great but the hurts most Mana bases so keeping it to mono or very heavy blue dual land decks. Other than that he's great
August 3, 2024 8:04 p.m.