Jaheira's Respite
Instant
Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of creatures attacking you, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.52
- EDHREC rank
- #4751
Jaheira's Respite drops a Forest onto the battlefield for every attacking creature your opponents control, then prevents all combat damage from those creatures — meaning a five-attacker swing nets you five lands and a clean board. That's a haymaker for four mana, and it's the exact kind of card that wins games the turn it's cast, which is why Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir builds treasure it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir turns every land entering the battlefield into a card draw trigger on opponents' turns, so Jaheira's Respite hitting five lands in a single combat translates directly into five cards drawn — the combo is that clean.
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer makes a 3/3 Elemental token for each land that enters under your control, so Jaheira's Respite converting a large attack into five or six simultaneous land drops is effectively a board wipe that replaces itself with an army.
Thantis, the Warweaver
Thantis, the Warweaver forces all creatures to attack each combat, which means Jaheira's Respite scales with every player at the table and will routinely produce double-digit land counts in a four-player game.
Phylath, World Sculptor
Phylath, World Sculptor places counters on plant tokens equal to the number of basic lands you control, so Jaheira's Respite flooding the board with Forests in a single burst inflates those counters immediately and can push lethal out of nowhere.
Titania, Nature's Force
Titania, Nature's Force creates an Elemental token whenever a Forest enters the battlefield, making Jaheira's Respite a one-card token swarm — every Forest the spell produces is another body added to the board.
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 |
Commander is the format Jaheira's Respite was built for: multiplayer boards are wide, attacks are frequent and large, and the spell's land production scales with every creature swinging at you. In a typical four-player game, one resolved copy can produce more mana acceleration than a Cultivate while also neutralizing what would have been a game-ending attack. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but the effect is too slow and situational to matter there — you need opponents attacking you for the card to do anything, and those formats end before that dynamic develops. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander shell worth considering, particularly in any landfall-themed list where the burst land production is an engine piece rather than incidental value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.52 bulk tier
At $0.52, Jaheira's Respite sits firmly in bulk territory, which is underselling its actual power level in landfall and politics-heavy Commander builds. It's the kind of card that stays cheap because it has a narrow home, not because it's weak — pick up copies now before a popular precon or reprint pushes it into wider circulation.
Explore
Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.