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Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
Legendary Creature — Human Pirate · {4}{B}{B} · Black commander
Whenever Jhoira enters or attacks, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a historic permanent card. You put that card onto the battlefield under your control and lose life equal to that permanent's mana value. That player puts the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of their library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
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What Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair 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 · attackWhenever Jhoira enters or attacks, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a historic permanent card. You put that card onto the battlefield under your control an
What a Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair deck needs
Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)
The Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 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
Best cards for Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
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.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
- Sword of Vengeance3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
- Ashnod's Intervention1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Plaguecrafter3 mana
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel5 mana
- Burglar Rat2 mana
- Demon's Disciple3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Ninja Teen3 mana
- Loxodon Warhammer3 mana
- Scion of Draco12 mana
- Haunted Cloak3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana