Jaya Ballard

Jaya Ballard

Legendary Planeswalker — Jaya

Mana cost: {2}{R}{R}{R}

How we read this card

Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells.

activated +1 — adds 3 mana

Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards.

activated +1 —

activated +1 — draws you that many cards

You get an emblem with "You may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead."

activated −8 — gets an emblem

Causes: discard a card, draw a card.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a planeswalker it grants abilities to — 312 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Way of the Pyromancer — Way of the Pyromancer gives Jaya Ballard an extra ability
  2. Way of the Warlord — Way of the Warlord gives Jaya Ballard an extra ability

310 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

When Jaya Ballard is cast:

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  3. Defiler of Instinct — deals 1 damage
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

239 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

When Jaya Ballard enters:

  1. Builder's Talent — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Brainstealer Dragon — makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  3. Cloudstone Curio — triggers

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

When Jaya Ballard makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

When Jaya Ballard makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

  1. Samwise Gamgee — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  4. Harness the Storm — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  5. Transplant Theorist — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  6. Heart-Shaped Herb — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  7. Wayward Angel — Jaya Ballard fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  8. Rescue from the Underworld — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  9. Victimize — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back
  10. Bound // Determined — Jaya Ballard puts cards into the graveyard that Bound // Determined can bring back

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Jaya Ballard is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Jaya Ballard:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.