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Annie Joins Up

Legendary Enchantment

When Annie Joins Up enters, it deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
If a triggered ability of a legendary creature you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{R}{G}{W}
Color identity
GRW
Rarity
rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1032
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Annie Joins Up card art
Annie Joins Up puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and gives every legendary creature you control a triggered ability that copies the next spell cast — all for three mana at instant speed. In a Jodah, the Unifier deck that already chains legendary spells, or an Ulalek, Fused Atrocity shell that wants every cast to cascade into chaos, this card punches well above its cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

46.4% of decks · synergy 0.40

Jodah, the Unifier cascades a legendary spell off every legendary spell you cast, and Annie Joins Up turns each of those legendary creatures into an additional trigger source — stack enough of them and a single spell resolves a dozen times. It's in nearly half of all Jodah lists for exactly this reason.

02
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

57.1% of decks · synergy 0.38

Rocco, Street Chef cares about putting counters on creatures and feeding a board of legendary creatures, and Annie Joins Up delivers both on the same card. The copy trigger on each legendary creature then turns Rocco's food generation into a chain reaction.

03
Tifa, Martial Artist

Tifa, Martial Artist

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Tifa, Martial Artist wants creatures with counters to punch harder, and Annie Joins Up hands a +1/+1 counter to every creature on your board the moment it resolves. The copy triggers layered on top make each subsequent spell disproportionately threatening.

04
Voja, Jaws of the Conclave

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.31

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave scales with the number of legendary creatures and Elves on board, and Annie Joins Up's mass counter distribution directly inflates those power totals. The copy trigger means every legendary creature you control becomes an amplifier for the next Elf or legend you cast.

05
Toph, the First Metalbender

Toph, the First Metalbender

48.3% of decks · synergy 0.29

Toph, the First Metalbender wants to leverage large power values and repeated triggers, and Annie Joins Up provides both a board-wide pump and a copy engine across every legend you control. The combination lets Toph turn a single impactful spell into a board state most tables can't answer cleanly.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Annie Joins Up is legal in every major Constructed format, but Commander is where it actually earns a slot. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer the three-mana investment for a conditional copy trigger is too slow and too reliant on a critical mass of legendaries that those formats don't consistently support. Standard is the one exception worth watching — if a Standard environment is dense with legendary creatures, the card can generate real value in a legends-matters shell. Legacy and Vintage have access to enough broken legendaries that the copy trigger can theoretically go infinite, but neither format is desperate for this effect at three mana when faster options exist. Annie Joins Up is a Commander card first, a Standard role-player second, and a curiosity everywhere else.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Annie Joins Up isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. Given its 46% inclusion rate in Jodah lists alone and strong showings across multiple high-volume commanders, demand is real — if the price is under $3, it's an easy pickup for any legends-matters build.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.