Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard
When Joshua enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.
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: Exile Joshua, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
"In ashen grip, let ember glow, to kindle flames anew."
3 / 4
- Set
- Final Fantasy (FIN #494)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2025-06-13
- Artist
- Lius Lasahido
- EDHREC rank
- #3,821
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
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
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Anger
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
- Faithless Looting
- Sun Titan
- Thrilling Discovery
- Monument to Endurance
- The Fire Crystal
- Metastatic Evangel
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- Banon, the Returners' Leader
- Demand Answers
- Thrill of Possibility
- Selfless Spirit
- Angel of Indemnity
- Karmic Guide
- Sevinne's Reclamation
- Big Score
- Cathartic Reunion
- Loran of the Third Path
- Laughing Mad
- Mog, Moogle Warrior
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
- Cathar Commando
- Brass's Tunnel-Grinder
- Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- Magus of the Wheel
- Pursue the Past
- Feldon of the Third Path
- Nibelheim Aflame
- Ark of Hunger
- Combustible Gearhulk
- Ascend from Avernus
- Impact Tremors
- Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
- Norn's Choirmaster
- The Wind Crystal
- Charming Scoundrel
- Barbara Wright
- Warleader's Call
- Tersa Lightshatter
- Enduring Courage
- Glint-Horn Buccaneer
- Phoenix Down
- Karn's Bastion
- Grateful Apparition
- Magmakin Artillerist
- Purphoros, God of the Forge
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
- Witch Enchanter
- Witch Enchanter
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Plains
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Clifftop Retreat
- Swords to Plowshares
- Faithless Looting
- Sun Titan
- Anger
- Battlefield Forge
- Path to Exile
- Talisman of Conviction
- Rugged Prairie
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
- Sacred Foundry
- Furycalm Snarl
- Boros Signet
- Blasphemous Act
- Sundown Pass
- Thrilling Discovery
- Monument to Endurance
- Thrill of Possibility
- Sevinne's Reclamation
- Selfless Spirit
- Demand Answers
- Big Score
- The Fire Crystal
- Loran of the Third Path
- Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- Metastatic Evangel
- Boros Charm
- Boros Garrison
- Banon, the Returners' Leader
- Spectator Seating
- Karmic Guide
- Impact Tremors
- Angel of Indemnity
- Sunbillow Verge
- Elegant Parlor
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Sunscorched Divide
- Exotic Orchard
- Lightning Greaves
- Cathartic Reunion
- Chaos Warp
- Warleader's Call
- Pursue the Past
- Ark of Hunger
- Temple of Triumph
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-06-06
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
- 2025-06-06
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
- 2025-06-06
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a nonmodal double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
- 2025-06-06
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
- 2025-06-06
If a card in your graveyard has
in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value. - 2025-06-06
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all. In that case, it stays in the zone it was previously in. For example, if a single-faced card is a copy of Crystal Fragments, it will be exiled during the resolution of its second ability and remain in exile.
- 2025-06-06
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Cecil, Dark Knight's color identity is black and white, since its front face is black and its back face has a white color indicator.
- 2025-06-06
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
- 2025-06-06
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
- 2025-06-06
You can choose to discard no cards when Joshua's first ability resolves. If you do, you won't draw any cards.