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Jet Medallion

Artifact

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Tempest
Price
$21.85
EDHREC rank
#278
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Jet Medallion card art
Jet Medallion makes every black spell you cast cost one less — in mono-black decks that chain spells or recur creatures repeatedly, that discount compounds fast enough to function as a second Sol Ring. Oathsworn Vampire loops and Vren, the Relentless token engines both cross viability thresholds with it in play that they can't reach without it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Vren, the Relentless

Vren, the Relentless

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.28

Vren, the Relentless churns out a high volume of black spells every turn cycle, and Jet Medallion turns that volume discount into real mana — the difference between deploying two pieces and three in the same turn is often the difference between threatening a win and not.

02
Acererak the Archlich

Acererak the Archlich

81.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Acererak the Archlich re-casts itself repeatedly until dungeons are complete, and Jet Medallion shaves a mana off each iteration — in a deck trying to lap the table on dungeon completions, that recurring discount adds up to a full extra loop over a long game.

03
Toshiro Umezawa

Toshiro Umezawa

80.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Toshiro Umezawa fires instants from the graveyard whenever a creature dies, making black spell volume the core engine, and Jet Medallion makes each of those free-roll casts cheaper so you can hold up more mana for responses.

04
Toxrill, the Corrosive

Toxrill, the Corrosive

25.2% of decks · synergy 0.17

Toxrill, the Corrosive sits at seven mana and leans on a suite of expensive black interaction to hold the board, so Jet Medallion pulling that suite down by one consistently lets Toxrill decks function a full turn earlier than their raw curve suggests.

05
Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

79.3% of decks · synergy 0.17

Valgavoth, Terror Eater wants opponents spending life and the deck to spend mana reacting quickly, and Jet Medallion's discount on the black interaction pieces means the deck can threaten Valgavoth and leave up disruption in the same window.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Jet Medallion earns its slot — mono-black is one of the most popular color identities in the format, and a cost-reduction artifact that never rotates and applies to every black spell you cast is the kind of persistent advantage a 100-card singleton deck rewards. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but rarely played, because those formats demand faster and more flexible acceleration than a card-type-restricted medallion provides. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: if your oathbreaker and signature spell are both black, Jet Medallion is an early pick. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all non-legal, so the card's audience is almost entirely the Commander table.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

The honest budget answer for Jet Medallion is that nothing replicates an unconditional cost reduction on all black spells — the closest substitutes narrow the scope. Bontu's Monument reduces creature costs only and gains life, which is fine in creature-heavy black builds but misses all the instants and sorceries Jet Medallion would discount. If the goal is generic black acceleration rather than the specific discount, Charcoal Diamond and Coldsteel Heart both come in under $1 and fix your black pip without the restriction, though trading cost reduction for flat ramp is a real downgrade in spell-dense decks.

Price Context

Current price

$21.85 premium tier

At $21.85, Jet Medallion sits in the premium tier for what is fundamentally a utility artifact with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no immediate board impact. That price is driven by sustained Commander demand across mono-black builds — it has held the $15–25 range for years — but it is a real ask for a card that does nothing the turn you play it.

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