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Jeska, Thrice Reborn

Legendary Planeswalker — Jeska · {2}{R} · Red commander

Jeska enters with a loyalty counter on her for each time you've cast a commander from the command zone this game. 0: Choose target creature. Until your next turn, if that creature would deal combat damage to one of your opponents, it deals triple that damage to that player instead. −X: Jeska deals X damage to each of up to three targets. Jeska, Thrice Reborn can be your commander. Partner

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What Jeska, Thrice Reborn actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability0: Choose target creature. Until your next turn, if that creature would deal combat damage to one of your opponents, it deals triple that damage to that player instead.
• Activated ability−X: Jeska deals X damage to each of up to three targets.
• Keyword · partnerpartner

What a Jeska, Thrice Reborn deck needs

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

• big evasive attackers (its 0 triples one creature's combat damage)
• a partner commander (it enters with loyalty for each command-zone cast)
• protection for the planeswalker

The Jeska, Thrice Reborn deck plan

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

• 8× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 7× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 6× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
• 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
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Jeska, Thrice Reborn

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.

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