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Jyoti, Moag Ancient
Legendary Creature — Elemental · {2}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
When Jyoti enters, create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature token for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)
At the beginning of each combat, land creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Jyoti's power.
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What Jyoti, Moag Ancient 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 Jyoti enters, create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature token for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.
- Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of each combat, land creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Jyoti's power.
What a Jyoti, Moag Ancient deck needs
Plays as land creatures. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- land creatures (each combat they get +X/+X)
- ways to recast the commander
The Jyoti, Moag Ancient deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 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
- 16× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Jyoti, Moag Ancient
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.
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Wrenn and Seven5 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Rampant Frogantua3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Simic Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Llanowar Tribe3 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Enduring Vitality3 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Assault Formation2 mana
- Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana
Combos with Jyoti, Moag Ancient
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Jyoti, Moag Ancient is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Food Chain + Lotus Cobra284 decks
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Food Chain + Tireless Provisioner264 decks
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Springheart Nantuko + Concordant Crossroads244 decks
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Food Chain + Concordant Crossroads197 decks
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Food Chain + Nissa, Resurgent Animist137 decks
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient + Deadeye Navigator + Tatyova, Steward Of Tides + Dryad Of The Ilysian Grove114 decks