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Jolrael, Empress of Beasts

Legendary Creature — Human Spellshaper

{2}{G}, {T}, Discard two cards: All lands target player controls become 3/3 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
special
Set
Time Spiral Timeshifted
Price
$0.73
EDHREC rank
#17211
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Jolrael, Empress of Beasts card art
Jolrael, Empress of Beasts turns every land you control into a 3/3 until end of turn — a one-card board wipe deterrent or surprise combat trick that scales with your mana base. The cost is real: six mana and a political tax (two opponents must target a land you control or you animate all lands), which makes her slow and group-dependent. She's a role-player in dedicated land-matters shells, not a standalone threat, and Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir does the same Jolrael flavor far more efficiently as a commander.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir generates creature tokens whenever card draw triggers, and Jolrael, Empress of Beasts adds a redundant land-animation threat that can turn your entire land base into an Aggravated Assault-fueled alpha strike — a second finisher axis that the Voice shell can realistically set up in the late game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Jolrael, Empress of Beasts is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but she sees virtually no play outside Commander. In competitive eternal formats, a six-mana creature with a condition-dependent activated ability is too slow and fragile to matter when every other threat at that cost wins the game outright. In Commander she finds her niche as a political deterrent in land-matters or tokens decks — threatening to swing with dozens of animated lands is enough to give opponents pause before committing to a board wipe. She's most at home as a singleton include in the 99, not as a commander herself.

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Aggravated AssaultJolrael, Empress of Beasts

Aggravated AssaultJolrael, Empress of Beasts

Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.73 bulk tier

At $0.73, Jolrael, Empress of Beasts sits firmly in bulk territory, which tracks with her narrow application. Demand is too niche to push the price meaningfully higher, so she's a cheap pickup if the land-animation plan fits your deck — just don't expect the price to move.

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