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Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Legendary Creature — Elemental

When Jyoti enters, create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature token for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)
At the beginning of each combat, land creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Jyoti's power.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9781
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Jyoti, Moag Ancient card art
Jyoti, Moag Ancient lands and immediately floods the board with 1/1 Forest tokens equal to the number of lands you control — a single-card army at instant speed with the right setup. The Food Chain interaction is the ceiling: exile Jyoti to generate mana, recast it, repeat, and Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir turns every new token into a threat that ends games.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

55.6% of decks · synergy 0.54

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir wants exactly what Jyoti, Moag Ancient provides — a repeatable instant-speed token flood that triggers Jolrael's buff on your opponents' turns, turning a land-heavy boardstate into a lethal alpha strike with almost no setup beyond the two cards themselves.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Jyoti, Moag Ancient actually lives — a seven-mana legendary creature that generates tokens scaled to your land count is built for 100-card singleton, not 60-card formats racing to close games on turn four. Legacy and Vintage are legal but effectively irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a seven-drop that doesn't win on the spot, and green has better options at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker offers a niche home if you're building around a green planeswalker with a land-matters or token theme, but Commander remains the format where Jyoti, Moag Ancient can actually justify its cost.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

286 decks
Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainLotus Cobra

Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainLotus Cobra

Infinite colored mana; Infinite commander casts; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count

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261 decks
Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainTireless Provisioner

Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainTireless Provisioner

Infinite colored mana; Infinite commander casts; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count; Infinite Treasure tokens

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202 decks
Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainConcordant Crossroads

Jyoti, Moag AncientFood ChainConcordant Crossroads

Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells; Infinite commander casts; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite green mana; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number before buying. Jyoti, Moag Ancient is a mythic rare with a narrow but real combo pedigree, so price tends to spike whenever a Food Chain or Jolrael list picks up visibility — buying before the next wave is smarter than chasing it after.

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