Jaya Ballard
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{R}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Jaya
- Loyalty
- 5
- Set
- Mythic Edition #RA4 (mythic)
+1: Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells.
+1: Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards.
−8: You get an emblem with "You may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead."
Jaya Ballard has 5 printings, first in Dominaria (2018). EDHREC ranks it #9,405 among Commander cards. It appears most in Firesong and Sunspeaker decks (952 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Jaya Ballard
- Prismari Performance - Commander 2021, led by Zaffai, Thunder Conductor
Commanders that run Jaya Ballard most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Firesong and Sunspeaker: 952 decks
- Imodane, the Pyrohammer: 850 decks
- Judith, Carnage Connoisseur: 701 decks
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame: 547 decks
- Zaffai, Thunder Conductor: 504 decks
- Ashling, Flame Dancer: 382 decks
- Solphim, Mayhem Dominus: 332 decks
- Urabrask // The Great Work: 267 decks
Often played with Jaya Ballard
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You choose how many cards to discard while Jaya’s second ability is resolving. You can choose to discard zero cards this way (and then draw zero cards) if you wish.
- : Mana produced by Jaya’s first ability can be spent among any number of instant and/or sorcery spells.
- : Jaya’s emblem doesn’t grant you permission to do anything with instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard except cast them. For example, you can’t cycle instant or sorcery cards with cycling from your graveyard.
- : Because it’s a loyalty ability, Jaya’s first ability isn’t a mana ability. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. It uses the stack and can be responded to.