Cynette, Jelly Drover
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
When Cynette enters or dies, create a 1/1 blue Jellyfish creature token with flying.
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #12844
Cynette, Jelly Drover drops a Food token the moment she enters and keeps the assembly line running every time you gain life, which means she generates value without any setup in the right shell. Y'shtola Rhul decks reach for her precisely because that passive trigger turns each life-gain event into a resource, and the entry fee is low enough that she slots in without crowding the curve.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Y'shtola Rhul
Y'shtola Rhul's life-gain triggers fire constantly, and Cynette, Jelly Drover converts each one into a Food token — giving the deck a sacrifice outlet, incidental artifact fodder, and a built-in life buffer that keeps Y'shtola's own engine fed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cynette, Jelly Drover is a Commander card through and through — the Food-generation loop only gets its full payoff when you have a commander like Y'shtola Rhul sitting in the command zone to chain triggers off. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but has no competitive footing; those formats don't want a three-mana 2/3 with a value trigger that takes several turns to compound. Commander and Oathbreaker are where she lives, and in those 100-card singleton formats the combination of an enter-the-battlefield Food and a life-gain rider gives her consistent utility across the whole game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Cynette, Jelly Drover sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes her a zero-friction pickup for any Y'shtola Rhul or Food-matters build. Bulk rares with narrow synergy homes tend to stay cheap, so don't expect movement — grab her for the deck, not the binder.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.