Is Martha Jones good in Commander?

Martha Jones in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Martha Jones hits the board and immediately starts generating value alongside sacrifice and clue synergies, making her a genuine engine piece rather than a filler creature. The ceiling is highest when Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra is involved — those two share enough mechanical overlap that Martha Jones rarely sits idle.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.52

Martha Jones appears in over half of Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra decks because both cards operate on the same clue-and-sacrifice axis, and Martha's triggers stack directly with Vastra's investigation payoffs to generate card advantage at a pace most tables can't match.

02

The Rani

27.0% of decks · synergy 0.27

The Rani wants bodies that do things on arrival and departure, and Martha Jones delivers on both counts — she slots into the Rani's experiment-and-exploit loops without requiring any setup.

03

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

23.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Morska, Undersea Sleuth rewards every clue that hits the table, and Martha Jones is one of the more efficient clue producers available in those colors — inclusion in nearly a quarter of Morska decks reflects exactly that.

04

Sophia, Dogged Detective

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Sophia, Dogged Detective cares about clues entering and leaving play, so Martha Jones earns her slot by feeding that engine consistently rather than just filling a curve slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Martha Jones is a Commander card first and last — her text is built around multiplayer-paced value accumulation that's simply too slow for Legacy or Vintage, where she's technically legal but never competitively relevant. Commander is the one format where her incremental clue generation and creature synergies have the turns to compound into something meaningful. Oathbreaker is the only other realistic home, and only in a shell deliberately built around her triggered abilities.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Martha Jones sits firmly in bulk territory, which means picking up copies is essentially free if you're already ordering. Bulk rares from niche licensed sets rarely climb without a reprint or breakout spike, so treat this as a cheap include rather than a hold.