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Jaxis, the Troublemaker

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {3}{R} · Red commander

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste and "When this token dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. Blitz {1}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

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What Jaxis, the Troublemaker 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{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste and "When this token dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end ste
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What a Jaxis, the Troublemaker deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• creatures with strong enter, attack and death triggers to copy (the copy has haste, dies at end step and draws a card)
• looting and discard outlets (the copy costs a discard — madness and flashback make it free)
• haste and untap effects that reach the commander (a tap ability is unusable the turn it lands)

The Jaxis, the Troublemaker deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 10× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
• 5× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Jaxis, the Troublemaker

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.

Combos with Jaxis, the Troublemaker

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jaxis, the Troublemaker is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Zealous Conscripts + Phyrexian Altar472 decks
• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Bloodthirster + Determined Iteration274 decks
• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Coercive Recruiter + Phyrexian Altar182 decks
• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Thornbite Staff + Phyrexian Altar162 decks
• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Zealous Conscripts + Thermopod155 decks
• Jaxis, the Troublemaker + Coercive Recruiter + Thermopod116 decks

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