Ajani, Wise Counselor
Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani
+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−3: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
−9: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14403
Ajani, Wise Counselor lands on turn five and immediately gains you life, pumps your board, or threatens an ultimate that refills your hand with creatures — it does real work the turn it enters. The catch is six mana on a planeswalker without a protective ability; Ajani, Nacatl Pariah is the cheaper, more resilient version of this effect, and most decks that want this gameplan should start there.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah triggers whenever another Ajani enters the battlefield, which means dropping Ajani, Wise Counselor nets you a free 2/1 token on top of the loyalty ability — the two cards form a package that pays you back for running redundant Ajani planeswalkers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ajani, Wise Counselor is a niche include — it fits Ajani-tribal builds running Ajani, Nacatl Pariah as their commander, and almost nowhere else at six mana. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, it sees no meaningful play; six mana is a game-ending threat threshold, and a planeswalker with no built-in protection doesn't clear that bar. Pioneer is the same story. Oathbreaker is the one space where Ajani, Wise Counselor can serve as the planeswalker-commander itself, leaning on the life-gain and pump abilities in a format where its cost is more forgivable.
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Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Ajani, Wise Counselor isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow application outside Ajani-tribal Commander builds, it tends to sit in budget-mythic territory — worth picking up cheaply if you're building that archetype, but not a card that commands a premium.
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- Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.