BlueLegendary Creature — Phyrexian PraetorJin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Mana value7Rank#1,675
The Commander
Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Guide
Gameplan
Jin-Gitaxias is a mono-blue spellslinger payoff that doubles your first artifact, instant, or sorcery each turn while taxing opponents by countering their first such spell. You ramp into the 7-mana praetor, then chain high-impact spells that each get copied for free—card draw, removal, big artifacts, or extra turns. You snowball card and board advantage until you assemble a combo or simply bury the table in value.
Strengths
- Doubles your best spell every turn, turning card draw, removal, and ramp into runaway advantage.
- The counter ability acts as a soft Stax piece, slowing every opponent's first key spell.
- Mono-blue gives access to the deepest card-draw, counterspell, and tutor pools in the format.
- Copying extra-turn spells and big artifacts creates explosive, often game-ending swings.
Weaknesses
- Seven mana and fragile—removal-heavy tables can keep him off the battlefield cheaply.
- Mono-blue struggles with enchantment and permanent-based threats it can't easily counter.
- The copy triggers only once per turn, so it rewards one big spell rather than going wide.
- Slow to close games without dedicated combo lines; can durdle if it draws no payoff.
Key Cards
- Time Warp — Copying an extra-turn spell chains into back-to-back turns, often snowballing into a loop or lethal.
- Mind's Desire — A storm payoff that gets doubled, exiling and casting a huge pile of free spells.
- Cyclonic Rift — Overloaded and copied, it bounces every opponent's board twice for a near-unbeatable tempo swing.
- Expropriate — Copying it steals multiple permanents and grants stacks of extra turns to end the game.
- Dramatic Reversal — With nonland mana rocks it loops infinite mana, and the copy untaps everything twice.
- Isochron Scepter — Imprinting Dramatic Reversal turns Jin's copy ability into an engine for infinite mana combos.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Mana Vault) and rituals to deploy Jin ahead of schedule, plus protection like Heroic Intervention's blue analogs and counterspell backup. Lean into compact combos—Isochron Scepter/Dramatic Reversal, Power Artifact + Basalt Monolith—and a payoff like Aetherflux Reservoir or a copied Walking Ballista. Tighten the curve with cheap cantrips and tutors (Mystical Tutor, Personal Tutor) so every turn's copied spell matters.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Chaining copied extra-turn spells into an overwhelming board or a lethal attack.
- ▸Infinite mana via Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal funneled into a draw/X-spell outlet.
- ▸Storm finish with copied Mind's Desire or Aetherflux Reservoir.
- ▸Grinding the table out with doubled card advantage and copied Cyclonic Rift.
Archetypes
- Spellslinger — His copy trigger rewards a deck packed with high-value instants and sorceries every turn.
- Combo — Doubling spells enables storm, infinite mana via Reversal loops, and extra-turn chains.
- Control — The free counter on opponents plus copied removal and draw lets you dominate the stack.
- Artifacts — Copying big artifacts and mana rocks builds a powerful artifact engine and ramp base.
Combos
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Mechanized Production + Myr Battlesphere
→ Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ghostly Flicker + Narset's Reversal + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
→ Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite ETB
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ghostly Flicker + Narset's Reversal + Gilded Lotus
→ Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite ETB
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Ugin's Nexus + Master Transmuter
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant + Venser, Shaper Savant + Panharmonicon + Time Warp
→ Infinite turns, Lock
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (U), by popularity.
