Jodah, the Unifier
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Legendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control.
Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy: Through the Ages
- Price
- $3.63
- EDHREC rank
- #2810
Jodah, the Unifier turns every legendary spell you cast into a free cascade that only hits other legendaries — a compounding value engine that snowballs faster than opponents can answer it. The cost is a six-mana creature with no protection, which means it folds to removal before you untap with it; Sisay, Weatherlight Captain demands the same investment but tutors proactively rather than reactively.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain and Jodah, the Unifier are the canonical pairing — Sisay fetches legendary creatures directly onto the battlefield, each fetch triggers Jodah's cascade, and the chain accelerates until you've assembled your entire legendary lineup in a single turn cycle.
Esika, God of the Tree
Esika, God of the Tree's five-color identity unlocks every legendary in your collection, and Jodah, the Unifier turns that deep legendary roster into a cascade chain — each legendary you play off The Prismatic Bridge or cast naturally cascades into another, letting Esika decks convert raw card volume into immediate board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Jodah, the Unifier is a headliner — 99-card singleton decks stuffed with legendaries give every trigger real targets, and a single resolved Jodah can refill a board that just got wiped. In Legacy and Vintage, a six-mana do-nothing-until-you-cast-another-spell creature has no competitive home; the formats move too fast to support that setup cost. Modern and Pioneer are technically legal but practically irrelevant — legendary density in constructed decks rarely exceeds four or five copies of a name, so the cascade triggers are too sporadic to matter. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format worth a look, since the format's tighter constraints can make a one-time cascade valuable, though Jodah still wants a critical mass of legendary spells to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.63 cheap tier
At $3.63, Jodah, the Unifier sits in budget-mythic territory — high synergy, low barrier. Given its presence in over 17,000 Sisay decks alone and no reprint in a high-volume product yet, the floor feels stable rather than declining.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
- Esika, God of the Tree
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.