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Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Price
$9.69
EDHREC rank
#1650
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Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant card art
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant doubles every artifact, instant, and sorcery you cast while countering one of each type your opponents try to resolve — on a single permanent. The nine-mana sticker price is real, but the second you untap with Jin-Gitaxias in play, the game state warps around it; Mechanized Production on it as an alternate win condition is almost a footnote compared to the raw tempo it generates.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Jin-Gitaxias

59.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

Jin-Gitaxias is the namesake commander for Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant in the most literal sense — over 59% of those decks run it, because doubling your spells while taxing opponents' synergizes directly with the Phyrexian draw-and-discard engine the deck already wants to run.

02
Neera, Wild Mage

Neera, Wild Mage

28.5% of decks · synergy 0.27

Neera, Wild Mage cheats on mana constantly, and when a free cascade off a cantrip lands Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, the copy trigger turns that single lucky hit into a doubled spell avalanche that most tables can't recover from.

03
Marvo, Deep Operative

Marvo, Deep Operative

28.3% of decks · synergy 0.25

Marvo, Deep Operative generates value off the top of opponents' libraries, and Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant ensures that whatever spells Marvo lets you cast from exile get doubled — turning incidental advantage into a two-for-one stream every turn.

04
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Baral, Chief of Compliance

33.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Baral, Chief of Compliance already reduces spell costs to make counterspell chains affordable, and Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant sitting alongside him means every instant or sorcery you cast creates a copy while blocking one of your opponents' spells for free.

05
Braids, Conjurer Adept

Braids, Conjurer Adept

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.24

Braids, Conjurer Adept puts large permanents into play for free around the table, and Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant is exactly the kind of bomb you want to drop into play at the start of an opponent's upkeep — threatening doubled spells before they even get to draw.

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 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant lives, and the reason is scale: four opponents means four spell types to tax, and the copy trigger compounds across a long game in ways a 60-card duel rarely allows. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically castable but competes with a format full of free countermagic and faster clocks that don't care about a nine-mana creature. Modern is the same story — the format's threat density and interaction speed means Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant arrives too late to matter unless you're doing something degenerate to cheat it in. Pioneer is the most interesting non-Commander home on paper, but the format lacks the ramp density to make nine mana feel anything other than aspirational.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Hullbreaker Horror fills a similar role at a fraction of the cost — it counters spells by bouncing permanents and can be cast at instant speed, losing the copy effect but gaining flash and a much lower price tag. If the copy effect specifically is what you're after, Swarm Intelligence and Thousand-Year Storm both replicate spells for cheaper but demand you build around them rather than providing the effect stapled to a resilient body like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant does.

Price Context

Current price

$9.69 mid tier

At $9.69, Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant sits squarely in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most Commander players. The effect is unique enough that there's no direct reprint pressure and demand from dedicated Jin-Gitaxias commander builds keeps a floor under it.

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