Jhessian Thief
Creature — Human Rogue
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Iconic Masters
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #18628
Jhessian Thief draws a card every time it connects with a player, and prowess means combat tricks can push it through blockers you didn't expect to beat. Three mana for a 1/3 is a real cost, but in the right shell the card advantage pays for itself within two attacks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Jhessian Thief is a Commander card through and through — the formats where it actually sees play are ones that reward incremental card advantage and have enough evasion support to make the trigger reliable. In Pauper it's a commons-legal beater, but a 1/3 for three with no built-in evasion struggles to compete in a format full of blockers that outclass it. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer all move too fast for a three-mana creature that needs to attack to generate value. Commander is where Jhessian Thief belongs: slower games, opponents who can't always hold up a blocker, and commanders like Niv-Mizzet or Tetsuko Umezawa that turn unblockable triggers into real engines.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Jhessian Thief is pure bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons and uncommons don't move unless a format breaks them, and nothing on the horizon is breaking this one.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.