A duel between lone pairs: A telluronium cation has been successfully installed in the coordination sphere of a palladium(II) complex. Despite the presence of a lone pair centered on the Group 16 element, the telluronium ion acts as a Z-ligand and accepts a d-electron pair from the palladium atom. 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.