Jhoira, Ageless Innovator
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
: Put two ingenuity counters on Jhoira, then you may put an artifact card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield, where X is the number of ingenuity counters on Jhoira.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #9914
Jhoira, Ageless Innovator lets you chain artifact casts into free spells off the top of your library — the kind of card-advantage engine that takes over a game the turn it resolves. The cost is real: she's a fragile three-mana creature who does nothing without artifacts in play, and a well-timed removal spell before her trigger fires puts you back to zero. In Tetsuo, Imperial Champion shells and similar Grixis artifact builds, she pairs with Ancestral Statue to generate near-infinite cast triggers, making her one of the most powerful cheap enablers in those colors.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion rewards you for casting noncreature spells repeatedly, and Jhoira, Ageless Innovator turns every artifact you play into a free spell off the top — the two form a self-sustaining engine that can drain the table or empty your hand and keep going.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Jhoira, Ageless Innovator lives — the 100-card singleton format gives her enough artifact density to fire consistently, and the multiplayer life totals mean you have time to set up the engine before it needs to close. In competitive EDH circles she slots into artifact storm builds as a redundant draw engine alongside similar payoffs. Across 60-card formats she's technically legal in Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, but the setup cost and creature vulnerability make her worse than purpose-built artifact draw engines in those formats; she sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker is a natural home if your signature spell is an artifact spell or a pump effect, since you can cast it repeatedly to fuel her triggers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Jhoira, Ageless InnovatorAncestral StatueIntruder Alarm
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Jhoira, Ageless Innovator is bulk, and that price reflects wide print availability rather than low demand — she sees real play in artifact Commander builds. Bulk rares that see consistent Commander play tend to hold a floor around this level rather than dropping further, so there's no urgency to buy multiples as a hedge.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.