Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper
Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Spirit
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on this creature.
At the beginning of the end step, if there are two or more ki counters on this creature, you may flip it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #24568
Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper offers a repeatable counterspell stapled to a creature, but the flip condition — accumulating ki counters by casting spells — makes it too slow and telegraphed to compete with dedicated interaction. The payoff on the back half is real, but the setup cost prices it out of most serious blue lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where free and one-mana counterspells make a two-mana creature that needs several turns to activate its counter ability laughably slow. Modern likewise ignores it — the format's threat density is too high to spend early turns babysitting a ki counter engine. In Commander, it sits in a narrow band of spellslinger or Spirits-tribal builds where the combination of a relevant creature type and eventual free counterspells has some appeal, but even there the three-player table dynamic means opponents will kill it before Jaraku the Interloper ever comes online.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper is firmly bulk, and that price reflects its demand accurately. Don't expect movement — nothing in the current format landscape is poised to rehabilitate a slow flip-creature counterspell engine.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.