Jodah's Avenger
Creature — Shapeshifter
: Until end of turn, this creature gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of double strike, protection from red, vigilance, or shadow. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #22188
Jodah's Avenger enters with a full suite of keyword abilities and lets you redistribute them freely until end of turn — that's immediate, on-board pressure the moment it resolves. The payoff ceiling is absurdly high, especially alongside Crackdown Construct, but you're paying six mana for a 0/0 body, so every hit to it before you untap is a total loss.
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 |
Jodah's Avenger is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give you the mana and the setup pieces to exploit repeated ability redistribution, and the singleton rule means the Crackdown Construct combo line is a legitimate build-around rather than a clunky one-of. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; six mana for a fragile creature competes with nothing in those formats. Modern is theoretically accessible but the card sees zero play there for the same reason.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Jodah's Avenger is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with genuine combo upside. That price reflects low demand rather than low power, and it's unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander build puts it on the map.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.