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Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

More Than Meets the Eye {3}{U} (You may cast this card converted for {3}{U}.)
Flying
Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from among artifacts you control: Target player adds that much {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. Convert Jetfire.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Transformers
Price
$6.59
EDHREC rank
#11519
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Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian card art
Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian puts a free spell on top of your library every turn cycle and converts into a 5/5 flier the moment you cast something big — the payoff is immediate and the setup cost is nothing. The catch is a five-mana entry point and a color identity that locks you into blue, but any deck casting Chromatic Orrery or stacking artifacts at the top of its curve gets full value from both halves, and Optimus Prime, Hero lists treat it as close to mandatory.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Optimus Prime, Hero

59.8% of decks · synergy 0.59

Optimus Prime, Hero converts into and out of vehicle mode constantly, and Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian feeds that loop by free-casting spells off the top while threatening its own transformation into a flying attacker alongside the board.

02

Tetzin, Gnome Champion

15.1% of decks · synergy 0.14

Tetzin, Gnome Champion runs enough high-cost artifacts to trigger Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian's back half reliably, and the free-cast ability means the deck gets extra artifact spells without spending additional mana — a meaningful rate in a strategy that already wants to go wide on artifacts.

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 Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian actually belongs — the free-cast trigger accrues value across a long game, the transformation payoff scales with the expensive spells Commander decks naturally run, and the card faces no direct competition from a redundant effect in the format. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but five mana for a creature that doesn't impact the board immediately is a non-starter in either format's tempo context. Oathbreaker is the only other realistic home, and only in artifact-heavy builds that mirror the Commander use case.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian is out of budget, Quicksilver Amulet does the closest impression of the free-cast function — it cheats expensive creatures into play without casting them, which misses the back-half transformation angle but accomplishes the same cost reduction in artifact and creature-heavy shells. Elvish Piper covers similar ground in green-inclusive decks at an even lower price, though neither replacement provides the flying body or the repeatable top-of-library setup that makes Jetfire's front half worth the slot.

Price Context

Current price

$6.59 mid tier

At $6.59, Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it belongs in any artifact or Transformers build without second-guessing. Given its ~60% inclusion rate in Optimus Prime, Hero decks and no reprint pressure visible yet, this price is unlikely to crater soon, but it's not a card you buy for speculation — you buy it because your deck needs it.

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