Jaya Ballard is a red human Planeswalker, introduced in May 2018 along with the Dominaria card set.
Jaya Ballard | |
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Full Name | Jaya Ballard |
Affinities | |
Origin set | Dominaria |
Cost | 295 |
Stats (max level) | |
Health | 108 |
Deck limits | 5 · 8 · 6 |
Mana bonuses | 0 · +4 · 0 · +5 · 0 |
Leveling cost | 79,920 |
Planeswalkers (Infobox · Data) |
Planeswalker series | |
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Jaya Ballard (human) | |
Jaya Ballard | |
Jaya, Fiery Negotiator |
She has average health, good mana gains in blue as well as red, and average deck limits, focusing on Spells.
The theme of her abilities is Spells. She can fetch spells with bonus mana, deal direct damage to the opponent if her last card is a spell while also drawing cards, and create a powerful support Tokens which copies spells she casts and gives the copies full mana.
Jaya Ballard is the first of two playable Planeswalkers in MtGPQ which embody Jaya Ballard at different points in her life.
Contents
Stats
Jaya Ballard - level 60 | ||||||||||
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Mana bonus | Deck limits | Health | Leveling cost | |||||||
0 | +4 | 0 | +5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 108 | 79,920 |
Abilities
1: Great Literature, Great Toast | |||
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Ability Level | PW level | Effect | |
6-19 | 6 | The first spell in your hand gains 8 mana. | |
20-35 | 6 | The first spell in your hand gains 10 mana. | |
36-49 | 6 | Fetch the first spell in your library. The first spell in your hand gains 8 mana. | |
50-60 | 6 | Fetch the first spell in your library. The first spell in your hand gains 10 mana. |
3: Professional Destruction | |||
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Ability Level | PW level | Effect | |
16-29 | 15 | Create a Minor Professional Destruction Token [3 shield with "Whenever you cast a non-copy spell, Copy the first spell from your library."]. | |
30-45 | 15 | Create a Professional Destruction Token [3 shield with "Whenever you cast a non-copy spell, Copy the first spell from your library. It gains half of its mana."]. | |
46-59 | 15 | Create an Improved Professional Destruction Token [4 shield with "Whenever you cast a non-copy spell, Copy the first spell from your library. It gains full mana."]. | |
60 | 15 | Create a Major Professional Destruction Token [4 shield with "Whenever you cast a non-copy spell, Copy the first 2 spells from your library. They gain full mana."]. |
Story
Jaya is a native of Dominaria whose skills, abilities, recklessness and impetuousness made her influence known to the Multiverse across generations. She founded Keral Keep, a pyromantic monastery in the plane Regatha, where Chandra Nalaar trained. After the Mending, she started aging normally, unlike Teferi and Karn, and is fully accepting of the fact she is at the end of a very long and productive life.
Starting Deck
Card name | Type | Cost | Color | Rarity | Set |
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Memorial to War | (3) | 13 | DOM | ||
Sulfur Falls | (2) | 10 | DOM | ||
Seismic Shift | 8 | DOM | |||
Ghitu Journeymage | (3/2) | 9 | DOM | ||
Fiery Intervention | 7 | DOM | |||
Volcanic Rambler | (5/3) | 8 | ORI | ||
Lightning Javelin | 6 | ORI | |||
Dragon Fodder | 6 | ORI | |||
Fiery Impulse | 4 | ORI | |||
Ghirapur Aether Grid | (2) | 6 | ORI |