
Jodah, Archmage Eternal
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Flying
You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.
"Chronicles across the ages describe Jodah. They likely refer not to one mage, but to a family or an arcane title." —Arkol, Argivian scholar
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 33
All 33 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Omniscience
- Fist of Suns
- Ruinous Ultimatum
- Apex Devastator
- Conflux
- Genesis Ultimatum
- Zacama, Primal Calamity
- One with the Multiverse
- In Garruk's Wake
- Maelstrom Wanderer
- Progenitus
- Emergent Ultimatum
- Sunbird's Invocation
- Jegantha, the Wellspring
- Leyline of Mutation
- Chromatic Orrery
- Maelstrom Archangel
- Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
- Leyline Immersion
- Timeless Lotus
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope
- Faeburrow Elder
- Time Stretch
- Primeval Spawn
- Reshape the Earth
- Bringer of the Black Dawn
- Eerie Ultimatum
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
- Cascading Cataracts
- Aminatou's Augury
- Bloom Tender
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Maelstrom Nexus
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- Lightning Greaves
- Cruel Ultimatum
- Atraxa, Grand Unifier
- Chromatic Lantern
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
- Nyxbloom Ancient
- Etali, Primal Conqueror
- Rampant Growth
- Birds of Paradise
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Myojin of Seeing Winds
- Ramos, Dragon Engine
- Inspired Ultimatum
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Command Tower
- Forest
- Island
- Plains
- Mountain
- Swamp
- Arcane Signet
- Chromatic Lantern
- Sol Ring
- Exotic Orchard
- Farseek
- Omniscience
- Fist of Suns
- Ruinous Ultimatum
- Cultivate
- Faeburrow Elder
- Apex Devastator
- Fellwar Stone
- Conflux
- Birds of Paradise
- Genesis Ultimatum
- Maelstrom Wanderer
- Swords to Plowshares
- Timeless Lotus
- Zacama, Primal Calamity
- Chromatic Orrery
- Bloom Tender
- Breeding Pool
- The World Tree
- One with the Multiverse
- Jegantha, the Wellspring
- Stomping Ground
- Overgrown Tomb
- Temple Garden
- In Garruk's Wake
- Kodama's Reach
- Progenitus
- Rampant Growth
- Cascading Cataracts
- Lightning Greaves
- Hallowed Fountain
- Leyline of Mutation
- Steam Vents
- Emergent Ultimatum
- Nature's Lore
- Watery Grave
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
- Maelstrom Archangel
- Sunbird's Invocation
- Counterspell
Format legality
Rulings
- 2018-04-27
If you apply Jodah's alternative cost to a spell with
in its mana cost, X is 0.
- 2018-04-27
If you cast a spell for which mana may be spent as though it were mana of any color, you may cast it for Jodah's alternative cost and still spend mana as though it were mana of any color.
- 2018-04-27
Jodah's ability is an alternative cost to cast a spell. You can't combine this with other alternative costs, such as flashback. You can pay additional costs, such as kicker, in addition to this alternative cost.