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Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary
Legendary Creature — Cat Mercenary · {1}{W}{U} · Green/Blue/White commander
Whenever Jedit Ojanen or another legendary creature you control enters, you may pay {G}. If you do, create a 2/2 green Cat Warrior creature token with forestwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
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What Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever Jedit Ojanen or another legendary creature you control enters, you may pay {G}. If you do, create a 2/2 green Cat Warrior creature token with forestwalk.
What a Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary deck needs
Plays as tokens. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- legendary creatures (each one entering makes a Cat Warrior)
The Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× 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
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary
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.
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Soulherder3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Intangible Virtue2 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Inspiring Leader3 mana
- Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
- Gideon's Memorial2 mana
- Mite Overseer4 mana
- Phantom General4 mana
- Finale of Devastation2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
Combos with Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Cloudstone Curio + Earthcraft + Rhys The Redeemed7 decks
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Leyline Of Singularity + Earthcraft3 decks
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Cloudstone Curio + Earthcraft + Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful2 decks
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Leyline Of Singularity + Phyrexian Altar2 decks
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Cloudstone Curio + Earthcraft + Isamaru, Hound Of Konda1 decks
- Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary + Cloudstone Curio + Earthcraft + Errant, Street Artist1 decks