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Jhoira's Familiar

Artifact Creature — Bird

Flying
Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Dominaria
Price
$1.64
EDHREC rank
#1038
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Jhoira's Familiar card art
Jhoira's Familiar makes every historic spell — artifacts, legends, sagas — cost one generic less, which in the right shell means you're chaining permanents into free draws off Sensei's Divining Top at a clip that ends games. The cost is four mana for a 2/2 with flying and no other text, which is a real ask, but the payoff in artifact-heavy Commander decks makes Gandalf the White and similar commanders actively seek it out.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gandalf the White

Gandalf the White

60.3% of decks · synergy 0.58

Gandalf the White triggers off casting legendary spells, so Jhoira's Familiar directly accelerates the storm-style loop of playing legends into Gandalf triggers into card advantage. At 60% inclusion across Gandalf lists, it's essentially a staple.

02
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

54.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain draws a card whenever you cast a historic spell, and Jhoira's Familiar shaves a mana off every one of them — the two together turn artifact-heavy hands into cascading card draw that's difficult to stop.

03
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

50.3% of decks · synergy 0.48

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant lets you imprint artifacts to reduce costs further, and Jhoira's Familiar stacks on top of that discount, making an already explosive artifact chain even harder to tax out.

04
Alibou, Ancient Witness

Alibou, Ancient Witness

43.1% of decks · synergy 0.40

Alibou, Ancient Witness rewards tapping artifacts for damage and card selection, and Jhoira's Familiar keeps the artifact stream flowing by reducing the cost of each piece you deploy.

05
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

39.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp leans on Modular artifacts, and Jhoira's Familiar turns what would be two- and three-mana artifacts into one-mana plays, letting you flood the board with counters faster than opponents can respond.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Jhoira's Familiar actually earns its slot — artifact and legend-heavy decks are common enough that the cost reduction triggers multiple times per turn cycle, and the 2/2 flying body is relevant enough to block in the early game. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them; those formats either lack the density of historic spells to make the discount matter or have access to far more efficient cost-reduction effects. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is — the format rewards artifact synergy and the historic clause lines up well with legendary-matters strategies.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.64 cheap tier

At $1.64, Jhoira's Familiar sits comfortably in the cheap tier and is easy to slot in without budget concerns. It's a functional staple in its target decks rather than a spec target, so the price is unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.

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