Jodah, Archmage Eternal

Gameplan

Jodah lets you cast any spell for regardless of its actual mana cost, so the deck loads up on absurdly expensive bombs and casts them way ahead of schedule. You ramp into all five colors, drop Jodah on turn four, then start chaining 8+ mana value haymakers, planeswalkers, and game-enders. The plan is to overwhelm the table with raw card quality once your five-color fixing is online.

Key Cards

• Jodah, Archmage Eternal — The entire engine — every fatty in the deck becomes a five-mana spell while he's on the battlefield.
• Omniscience — Costs only WUBRG with Jodah, then lets you cast everything else for free for the rest of the game.
• Enter the Infinite — A 12-mana draw-your-deck spell that Jodah casts for five, often a direct line to a win.
• Smothering Tithe — Generates the heaps of mana and color fixing a five-color deck craves.
• Cryptic Command — Costs WUBRG anyway, but represents the flexible interaction this deck needs to protect Jodah and answer threats.
• Jeska's Will / Mana ramp rituals — Explosive mana that helps you land Jodah early and cast a second big spell the same turn.

Upgrade Path

Lean harder into fast mana (Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus, signets, rituals) and premium five-color fixing (fetch/dual lands, Prismatic Omen, Chromatic Lantern) so Jodah lands turns 2-3. Add protection like Lightning Greaves, Heroic Intervention, and counterspell backup, then tighten the bomb suite into spells that actually win when cast for WUBRG — Omniscience, Enter the Infinite, Approach of the Second Sun, and Apex Devastator. For maximum power, build toward a deterministic combo finish off Omniscience or Enter the Infinite rather than relying on incremental value.