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Capture of Jingzhou

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Portal Three Kingdoms
Price
$199.97
EDHREC rank
#4989
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Capture of Jingzhou card art
Capture of Jingzhou gives you an extra turn for five mana with no strings attached — that's the whole story. The cost is real: $200 puts it in the same conversation as the Reserved List's most expensive role-players, but in a Narset, Enlightened Master deck that casts it for free off an attack trigger, or any shell looping it with Ghostly Flicker, the ceiling is a game-ending turn chain.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

02
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Edric, Spymaster of Trest

19.7% of decks · synergy 0.19

Edric, Spymaster of Trest decks want to attack repeatedly with small creatures and convert those attacks into cards; Capture of Jingzhou doubles down on that by giving the whole squad another swing before opponents can stabilize.

03
Myra the Magnificent

Myra the Magnificent

13.4% of decks · synergy 0.12

Myra the Magnificent's spellslinger engine rewards casting instants and sorceries for value, and Capture of Jingzhou is the highest-impact sorcery in the format — an extra turn spent casting more spells compounds every trigger Myra generates.

04
Haldan, Avid ArcanistPako, Arcane Retriever

Haldan, Avid Arcanist // Pako, Arcane Retriever

11.7% of decks · synergy 0.11

Pako exiles cards and Haldan, Avid Arcanist casts them, so Capture of Jingzhou grabbed off an opponent's library becomes a free extra turn for the pair — exactly the chaotic, value-maximizing line this partnership is built for.

05
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

11.8% of decks · synergy 0.09

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea rewards repeated combat and untap steps; Capture of Jingzhou delivers another full turn of triggers, making it one of the cleanest ways to close out the game from the Eluge seat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Capture of Jingzhou belongs — extra turns are maximally punishing in a multiplayer setting where a single uncontested turn can lap the entire table. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage as well, but five mana at sorcery speed has never been competitive in those formats, where Time Walk variants at one or two mana dominate. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it sees occasional play, again purely as a value piece in slower, spell-focused builds. Everywhere else — Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Pauper — it's simply not legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Temporal Trespass is the closest budget replacement: it exiles itself from the game, so you can't recur it, but at rare it's a fraction of the price for the same basic effect. Extra Combat spells like Savage Beating or Aggravated Assault don't grant full extra turns but cost a fraction of what Capture of Jingzhou demands and cover similar ground in creature-heavy strategies; the trade-off is losing the clean extra draw step and main phase.

Price Context

Current price

$199.97 premium tier

At $199.97, Capture of Jingzhou sits firmly in the premium tier — Reserved List territory where supply is permanently fixed and demand from Commander keeps prices high. It holds value well by historical pattern, but you're paying for the card's scarcity as much as its power; budget players are better served by non-Reserved alternatives until they're certain the card is a permanent fixture in their collection.

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