The Commander
, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
Guide
Gameplan
Use Jhoira to suspend big-mana bombs for just apiece, banking devastating spells that come down for free a few turns later with haste. You build a critical mass of suspended threats, ramp/stall in the meantime, and bury opponents under expensive sorceries, eldrazi, and game-ending finishers cast for no mana.
Strengths
- Effectively casts your most expensive spells for , generating massive mana advantage
- Suspended creatures arrive with haste, enabling surprise attacks and immediate value
- Can stockpile multiple bombs in a single turn if you have mana, then watch them all resolve
- Filters dead cards and turns clunky high-CMC hands into a real plan
Weaknesses
- Slow and telegraphed—opponents see threats coming for several turns
- Vulnerable to removal on Jhoira before you've banked enough spells
- Suspended cards in exile are exposed to graveyard/exile hate and can't be protected once committed
- Doesn't ramp or interact by itself, so a fast or disruptive table can race you
- Time counters can't be hurried without specific support, so payoffs are delayed
Key Cards
- As Foretold — Lets you cast suspended spells (and others) for free regardless of mana value, stacking with Jhoira's engine.
- Jhoira's Timebug — Manipulates time counters to accelerate your suspended spells off the stack sooner.
- Paradox Haze — Doubles upkeep triggers so suspended cards lose two counters per turn, halving the wait.
- Emrakul, the Aeons Torn — The premier free suspend payoff—an annihilator finisher cast for that ends games.
- Expropriate — Game-warping eight-mana spell that becomes trivial to deploy through Jhoira.
- Lighthouse Chronologist — Extra upkeeps mean extra counter removals, speeding every suspended threat.
Upgrade Path
Add time-counter accelerators (Paradox Haze, Lighthouse Chronologist, Jhoira's Timebug) and free-cast enablers like As Foretold to shorten the wait and double your output. Prioritize protection for Jhoira—Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, counterspells—since the engine collapses without her. Finally, tighten the curve of payoffs around true game-enders (Emrakul, Expropriate, Apex of Power) and cut mid-value cards so every suspend genuinely threatens to win.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Suspending and unleashing colossal eldrazi like Emrakul or Blightsteel-style finishers for combat damage
- ▸Chaining extra-turn spells (Expropriate, Time Stretch) into an overwhelming advantage
- ▸Casting massive X-spells or game-ending sorceries (Insurrection, Time Spiral draws) for free
- ▸Accumulating multiple suspended bombs that all resolve on the same upkeep to overload the table
Archetypes
- Big Mana / Ramp — Jhoira sidesteps mana costs, so the deck loads up on the most expensive haymakers in the format.
- Spellslinger — Suspending instants and sorceries turns expensive bombs and X-spells into free, high-impact casts.
- Combo — Free casting of suspended spells pairs with cost-reduction and extra-turn loops for explosive finishes.
- Control — While threats tick down, you hold up counters and removal to protect the engine and stall the board.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (RU), by popularity.
