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Jodah, Archmage Eternal

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Flying
You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria
Price
$0.85
EDHREC rank
#5411
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Jodah, Archmage Eternal card art
Jodah, Archmage Eternal lets you cast anything in the game for WUBRG — a flat five-mana cost that turns every expensive spell into an equal-opportunity target. The catch is that WUBRG demands a five-color mana base, and Jodah himself needs to survive long enough to matter, but when he does, pairing him with Morophon, the Boundless collapses the cost of your entire tribe to zero.

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 Jodah, Archmage Eternal actually gets to do his job — as a five-color commander himself, he unlocks the full card pool, and the format's slower pace gives him room to land and stick. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer he's legal but functionally unplayed: competitive decks don't want a five-color 4/3 that requires WUBRG just to enable other expensive spells, and none of those formats are waiting around for that engine. Vintage has the same problem at higher speed. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where a cost-reduction effect could theoretically matter, but the format's fringe status keeps him off most radars.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.85 bulk tier

At $0.85, Jodah, Archmage Eternal sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a legitimate five-color engine. The price reflects wide supply rather than weak demand — he sees consistent play in five-color Commander builds, so this is a safe pickup that isn't going lower.

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