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Jaya Ballard
Card Information
Type: Legendary Planeswalker — Jaya
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Dominaria (DOM)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 132
Oracle Text
+1: Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells. +1: Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards. −8: 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."
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Card Rulings
- June 8, 2018
Because it’s a loyalty ability, Jaya’s first ability isn’t a mana ability. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
Source: wotc - April 27, 2018
You choose how many cards to discard while Jaya’s second ability is resolving. You can choose to discard zero cards this way (and then draw zero cards) if you wish.
Source: wotc - April 27, 2018
Mana produced by Jaya’s first ability can be spent among any number of instant and/or sorcery spells.
Source: wotc - April 27, 2018
Jaya’s emblem doesn’t grant you permission to do anything with instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard except cast them. For example, you can’t cycle instant or sorcery cards with cycling from your graveyard.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.