Jaya Ballard

Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1062 · Mythic · Legendary Planeswalker — Jaya

Mana cost: {2}{R}{R}{R}

+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."

Loyalty 5 · Illustrated by Fajareka Setiawan · Released November 2, 2022

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.13 USD (3.6%) to $3.50 USD; low $3.49 USD, high $3.64 USD.

Printings

  1. Secret Lair Drop #1062 (this printing) · Mythic · 2022 · $3.50 USD
  2. Commander 2021 #175 (C21) · Mythic · 2021 · $0.37 USD
  3. Mythic Edition #RA4 (MED) · Mythic · 2019 · $6.05 USD foil
  4. Dominaria #132 (DOM) · Mythic · 2018 · $0.63 USD
  5. Dominaria Promos #132s (PDOM) · Mythic · 2018 · $2.91 USD foil

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2018-04-27 · wotc — 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.
  2. 2018-04-27 · wotc — Mana produced by Jaya’s first ability can be spent among any number of instant and/or sorcery spells.
  3. 2018-04-27 · wotc — 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.
  4. 2018-06-08 · wotc — 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.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Firesong and Sunspeaker · in 13% of 47 decks

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