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Jodah, the Unifier

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

Legendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control. Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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What Jodah, the Unifier 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 · cast_spellWhenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its
• Static ability · pt_doublerLegendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control.

What a Jodah, the Unifier deck needs

Plays as legendary cast trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• legendary creatures and legendary spells (each legend cast from hand cascades into a cheaper legend)
• expensive legends — the free cast takes the next cheaper one

The Jodah, the Unifier deck plan

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

• 32× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 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
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Jodah, the Unifier

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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