Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
Legendary Creature β Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment β Saga
Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
Legendary Creature β Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment β Saga
Card Text
Jin-Gitaxias
Legendary Creature β Phyrexian Praetor
Ward
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.
5 / 5
The Great Synthesis
Enchantment β Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I β Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control this Saga.
II β Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III β You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 5
- Colors
- Colorless
- Color Identity
- Blue
- EDHREC Rank
- #3,037
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (16)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | en | Ekaterina Burmak | $11.96 | $13.21 |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #339 | mythic | en | Julian Kok Joon Wen | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | en | Dominik Mayer | $12.38 | $16.71 |
| March of the Machine Promos (PMOM) | #65p | mythic | en | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine Promos (PMOM) | #65s | mythic | en | Ekaterina Burmak | β | $18.54 |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | de | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | es | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | es | Dominik Mayer | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | fr | Dominik Mayer | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | fr | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | it | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | ja | Dominik Mayer | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | pt | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | pt | Dominik Mayer | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #65 | mythic | zhs | Ekaterina Burmak | β | β |
| March of the Machine (MOM) | #294 | mythic | zhs | Dominik Mayer | β | β |
Official Rulings (6)
A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way wonβt resolve until youβre done casting spells, so the permanents they become canβt be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you canβt cast that Aura targeting that creature.
If you cast a spell βwithout paying its mana cost,β you canβt pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
For chapter I of The Great Synthesis, the number of cards you draw is determined as the ability resolves. If you no longer control The Great Synthesis at that time, your maximum hand size remains unchanged.
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Once youβve activated Jin-Gitaxiasβs last ability, it doesnβt matter what happens to the number of cards in your hand. The ability will resolve even if you have six or fewer cards in your hand by that time.
All the spells you cast due to chapter III are cast during the resolution of that ability. You can cast them in any order, and timing restrictions based on the cardsβ types are ignored. Once youβre done casting spells, before any of them resolve, The Great Synthesis will be exiled and return as Jin-Gitaxias.
Card Faces
Jin-Gitaxias
Legendary Creature β Phyrexian Praetor
Ward
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.
5 / 5
The Great Synthesis
Enchantment β Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I β Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control this Saga.
II β Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III β You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
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