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Jolene, the Plunder Queen
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · {2}{R}{G} · Green/Red commander
What Jolene, the Plunder Queen 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 a player attacks one or more of your opponents, that attacking player creates a Treasure token.
- Activated abilitySacrifice five Treasures: Put five +1/+1 counters on Jolene.
- Replacement effect · otherIf you would create one or more Treasure tokens, instead create those tokens plus an additional Treasure token.
What a Jolene, the Plunder Queen deck needs
Plays as treasure. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- Treasure makers and Treasure payoffs (every Treasure creation makes one more)
- politics — any player attacking your opponents makes a Treasure
The Jolene, the Plunder Queen deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 4× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 14× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
Best cards for Jolene, the Plunder Queen
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 +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
- Origin of Metalbending2 mana
- Natural State1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Archdruid's Charm3 mana
- Chord of Calling3 mana
- Eldritch Evolution3 mana
- Summoner's Pact0 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Gruul Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
Combos with Jolene, the Plunder Queen
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jolene, the Plunder Queen is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Goldspan Dragon + Aggravated Assault2,828 decks
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Goldspan Dragon + Hellkite Charger1,807 decks
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Gleaming Splendor + Smothering Tithe88 decks
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Chthonian Nightmare + Pitiless Plunderer69 decks
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Kenrith, The Returned King + Smothering Tithe + Goldspan Dragon67 decks
- Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Kenrith, The Returned King + Smothering Tithe + Doubling Season49 decks
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