Jhoira of the Ghitu
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.95
- EDHREC rank
- #6133
Jhoira of the Ghitu lets you suspend any nonland card for two mana and four turns — turning eight-mana spells into a two-mana down payment while you untap and develop your board. The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler decks run her in over 66% of builds because suspending historics triggers the Doctor's draw engine repeatedly, which tells you everything about the ceiling on that interaction.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler draws a card whenever you cast or suspend a historic spell, so Jhoira of the Ghitu turns every two-mana suspend activation into a cantrip — stack enough suspensions and you're drawing multiple cards per turn cycle while your threats count down for free.
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds can end the turn in response to suspend counters being removed, which resets the countdown and keeps your threats in a permanent holding pattern — Jhoira of the Ghitu feeds that loop by generating a steady stream of suspended permanents to manipulate.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Jhoira of the Ghitu actually matters — a four-turn delay is a real cost in a 40-life multiplayer game, but the ability to jam Blightsteel Colossus or Emrakul for two mana on turn three scales hard enough to justify it. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but competes with formats that can kill or win before four turns ever elapse, making the suspend mechanic largely irrelevant at that speed. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: as a planeswalker-adjacent shell where you control the game while threats count down, Jhoira can slot into the 60-card grind as a threat-deployment engine.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.95 bulk tier
At $0.95, Jhoira of the Ghitu sits firmly in bulk territory despite showing up in over 5,000 Commander decks — high demand hasn't moved the needle because multiple printings have kept supply comfortable. At under a dollar for a legendary creature with a genuinely broken ceiling in the right shell, there's no reason to wait on picking up copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.