BlueLegendary Creature — Human Illusion WizardPol Jamaar, Illusionist
Mana value6Rank#14,140
The Commander
Flying
When Pol Jamaar enters, choose a creature type. Draw a card for each creature you control of that type.
Guide
Gameplan
Pol Jamaar is a mono-blue typal payoff that rewards going wide with a single creature type, refilling your hand on every cast or recursion. Flood the board with cheap creatures of your chosen type, then deploy and re-deploy Pol to draw a fistful of cards, snowballing into counters, card advantage, and eventually a finisher. You play a tempo/aggro-typal game backed by blue's card draw and protection.
Strengths
- Mono-blue means flawless, consistent mana with access to the best card draw, counterspells, and bounce.
- Pol turns a wide typal board into massive card advantage, and you can repeat the effect via blink or recasting.
- Flying makes Pol a relevant evasive body and a steady commander-damage clock.
- Choosing the creature type on ETB gives flexibility—you can name whatever you've gone widest on.
Weaknesses
- Six mana for an ETB-draw commander is slow and easy to disrupt before it pays off.
- Relies on already having a board; if you're behind or wrathed, Pol draws few or no cards.
- Mono-blue lacks efficient removal and struggles against resolved enchantments and big creatures.
- Telegraphs your strategy—opponents can hold up sweepers to blank the draw trigger.
Key Cards
- Cloudstone Curio — Bounces creatures to re-trigger Pol and other ETBs while flooding the board for free.
- Deeproot Pilgrimage — Generates a wide army of Merfolk tokens to maximize Pol's draw on a single named type.
- Lullmage Mentor — Merfolk token engine that snowballs your tribe and locks opponents out with free counters.
- Cyclonic Rift — The premier mono-blue blowout that protects your board and clears the way for an alpha strike.
- Heroic Intervention — Off-color is impossible, but blue's Tamiyo's Safekeeping/Slip Out the Back protect your key creatures—run such effects to shield the board.
- Lonely Sandbar — Cantrip land that smooths a mono-blue manabase while feeding late-game card flow.
Upgrade Path
Tighten around one explosive tribe (Merfolk or Faeries) with token generators like Deeproot Pilgrimage and Bitterblossom so a single Pol cast draws 5+. Add reuse engines—Cloudstone Curio, Equilibrium, or blink like Ephemerate—plus protection (Heroic-style blue spells, Lightning Greaves) to insure the trigger. Finish with mono-blue payoffs such as Coat of Arms, Cyclonic Rift, and a big X-draw or mill outlet to convert your card lead into a win.
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
- ▸Beat down with a wide, evasive typal board (especially Faeries or other fliers).
- ▸Connect repeatedly with Pol and other fliers for commander/combat damage.
- ▸Overrun with a token-flooded tribe backed by an anthem or Coat of Arms.
- ▸Grind opponents out of cards and resources via Pol's repeated draws, then close with a finisher like Stroke of Genius or Blue Sun's Zenith.
Archetypes
- Typal (Tribal) — Pol's draw scales directly with how many creatures of one type you control, rewarding a focused tribe like Merfolk, Wizards, or Faeries.
- Tempo Aggro — Flying evasion plus cheap typal creatures lets you apply pressure while holding up countermagic.
- Blink/Flicker — Repeatedly flickering Pol re-fires the draw trigger for explosive card advantage.
- Control — Mono-blue's counters and card draw let you durdle behind Pol while the board out-values opponents.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (U), by popularity.
