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Jirina, Dauntless General
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · {W}{B} · Black/White commander
What Jirina, Dauntless General 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 · etbWhen Jirina enters, exile target player's graveyard.
- Activated abilitySacrifice Jirina: Humans you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
What a Jirina, Dauntless General deck needs
Plays as human typal. 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)
- creatures that profit from indestructible/hexproof (it grants the team them)
- human creatures (its text counts them)
The Jirina, Dauntless General deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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 Jirina, Dauntless General
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.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Felidar Guardian4 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mother of Runes1 mana
- Serra Ascendant1 mana
- Soul Warden1 mana
- Soul's Attendant1 mana
- Grand Abolisher2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Disciple of the Vault1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
- Loran of the Third Path3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 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
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- General's Enforcer2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Jirina, Dauntless General
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jirina, Dauntless General is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Kenrith, The Returned King + Relic Of Legends + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron164 decks
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + Luminous Broodmoth20 decks
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Solemnity + Luminous Broodmoth19 decks
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Eirdu, Carrier Of Dawn + Vizier Of Remedies2 decks
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Kenrith, The Returned King + Earthcraft + Agatha Of The Vile Cauldron1 decks
- Jirina, Dauntless General + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Leyline Of Singularity1 decks
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