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Lord Jyscal Guado

Lord Jyscal Guado

Legendary Creature — Spirit Cleric

Lord Jyscal Guado wants a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them. It also works in a deck built around Clerics, Clues Matter or Spirits.

  • Mana cost1 genericwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 1
  • RarityRare

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if you put a counter on a creature this turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2 generic, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit Lord Jyscal Guado

Picked for what they do in Lord Jyscal Guado's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Lord Jyscal Guado'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.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Lord Jyscal Guado

explain how Lord Jyscal Guado works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 6 Jun 2025

Lord Jyscal Guado's last ability checks at the moment it would trigger to see if you put a counter on a creature this turn. If you didn't, the ability won't trigger at all. Once your end step begins, it's too late to put a counter on a creature in order to cause this ability to trigger.

1 ruling, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

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Commanders that share the most with Lord Jyscal Guado, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.TokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageClues MatterClue tokens are artifacts you can pay 2 mana and sacrifice to draw a card. Making one is called investigate.Open the Clues Matter page