Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

Whenever a player attacks one or more of your opponents, that attacking player creates a Treasure token.
If you would create one or more Treasure tokens, instead create those tokens plus an additional Treasure token.
Sacrifice five Treasures: Put five +1/+1 counters on Jolene.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
EDHREC rank
#4367
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Jolene, the Plunder Queen card art
Jolene, the Plunder Queen turns every attack into a treasure-generating arms race — opponents who swing at each other fill your board with mana rocks, and she converts those treasures into 4/4 Dinosaur tokens the moment anyone cashes them in. The cost is real: she does nothing in a slow or combat-averse pod, and she's fully dependent on other players choosing violence. Compare her to Goldspan Dragon, which generates value on its own schedule, and you see the gap — but in a deal-making, treasure-heavy shell alongside Vazi, Keen Negotiator, the ceiling is absurd.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

86.9% of decks · synergy 0.82

Vazi, Keen Negotiator is the premier home for Jolene, the Plunder Queen — Vazi incentivizes opponents to attack each other, which is exactly the condition Jolene needs to print treasures, and the two together create a self-reinforcing engine where treasure generation funds both Vazi's counter distribution and Jolene's Dinosaur tokens.

02
Roxanne, Starfall Savant

Roxanne, Starfall Savant

43.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

Roxanne, Starfall Savant is already deep in the treasure-generation business, so Jolene, the Plunder Queen slots in as a redundant payoff that punishes treasure spend with 4/4 bodies and rewards the combat-heavy gameplan Roxanne naturally encourages.

03
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

43.2% of decks · synergy 0.39

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash makes haste creatures produce treasures on attack, which means Jolene, the Plunder Queen sits downstream of the same resource stream — both cards want a wide, aggressive board, and the treasures Ognis generates can trigger Jolene's Dinosaur clause the turn they hit the table.

04
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

39.0% of decks · synergy 0.38

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider rewards adventuring and treasure use, so Jolene, the Plunder Queen plugs directly into that loop as a source of fresh treasures and a punisher whenever Lara's own treasure spend triggers the Dinosaur clause.

05
Rashmi and Ragavan

Rashmi and Ragavan

29.8% of decks · synergy 0.29

Rashmi and Ragavan generates treasures off Ragavan's attack trigger, feeding Jolene, the Plunder Queen's accumulation gameplan, and the Simic half of the pairing provides the card advantage needed to keep up with the political chaos Jolene creates.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the only format where Jolene, the Plunder Queen functions as intended — her design is explicitly multiplayer, rewarding combat between opponents and converting group-wide treasure generation into a personal army of Dinosaurs. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but utterly unplayable; a four-mana 3/3 that depends on opponents attacking each other has no path to relevance in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth mentioning: treasure-based oathbreaker builds can make use of her, especially with a Treasure-generating signature spell, but the smaller pod size limits how often the attack trigger fires.

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