Jenova, Ancient Calamity card art

Jenova, Ancient Calamity

Legendary Creature — Alien MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Jenova's power on up to one other target creature. That creature becomes a Mutant in addition to its other types.

Whenever a Mutant you control dies during your turn, you draw cards equal to its power.

Combos with Jenova, Ancient Calamity

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-06-06

    If Jenova isn't on the battlefield at the time its first ability resolves, use Jenova's power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many counters to put on the target creature.

  • 2025-06-06

    Use the power of the Mutant that died as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many cards to draw with Jenova's last ability.

  • 2025-06-06

    If Jenova dies at the same time as one or more Mutants you control, its last ability will trigger for each of those Mutants (including itself if it somehow became a mutant).

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Jenova, Ancient Calamity in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 1
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Jenova, Ancient Calamity, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 7
Win rate 14.3%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist 1 7 14.3%
Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 1 0 —
Sin, Spira's Punishment 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Sultai 2 decks
  • Abzan 1 deck

Every version of Jenova, Ancient Calamity

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Jenova, Ancient Calamity — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.