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- Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
Command zone
Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Nightmare
Jecht wants a deck that gives up its own cards on purpose to get something back. It also suits a deck that slows the whole table down with rules everyone must follow.
- Mana cost
- Black ()
- Power / toughness4 / 3
- RarityRare
Menace
Whenever Jecht deals combat damage to a player, you may exile it, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.
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(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Jecht Beam — Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.
III — Ultimate Jecht Shot — Each opponent sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
Menace
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- Archetypes
- Themes
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- Humans
- Nightmares
- Sagas
- Warriors
Cards That Fit Jecht, Reluctant Guardian
Picked for what they do in Jecht's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Jecht's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Rulings for Jecht, Reluctant Guardian
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A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
As Braska's Final Aeon's first or second chapter ability resolves, the next opponent in turn order (or, if it's an opponent's turn, that opponent) chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other opponent in turn order does the same. Then the chosen cards are discarded at the same time. Finally, you draw a card.
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a nonmodal double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all. In that case, it stays in the zone it was previously in. For example, if a single-faced card is a copy of Crystal Fragments, it will be exiled during the resolution of its second ability and remain in exile.
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Cecil, Dark Knight's color identity is black and white, since its front face is black and its back face has a white color indicator.
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
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