Hello and welcome to Daily Commander!

Today we are going to be talking about Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile!

Jenson is a two mana 2/2 with whenever you cast a multicolored spell scry 1 and if that spell was all colors you create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance and for five mana an tap to make all five colors of mana.

We played into similar space when we made the General Ferrous Rokiric deck, but we have expanded our color options while also making it a bit more restrictive in that we need to cast spells of all colors to get the token.

There is the plus side in that we have every color to work so that gives us a ton of options, we just need to find the best way to make the most use of Jenson’s ability.

Our first issue is that we need a way to make sure we can cast our five color spells without having too many issues with mana.

While we can opt for an expensive mana base, we can short cut it a bit by playing something like Leyline of the Guildpact, which will have synergies with some cards later by making our permanents all colors, but more importantly gives all of our lands all other basic land types.

Similarly we can use Chromatic Lantern as not only a mana rock, but also as a way to make sure we tap for the right colors. While it isn’t multicolored, Prismatic Omen is also an option to make sure our lands tap for all colors.

As far as lands go, it really depends on your budget to decide what to include but ones that can fit in all budgets are Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, and Pillar of the Paruns. I would also consider The World Tree as a way to eventually get access to all colors once you get six or more lands on the battlefield.

The next cards we need to focus on is going to be our interaction and resource accrual suite, which is going to be a bit slower because they are going to be muilticolored spells.

Growth Spiral is going to be immensely helpful because not only does it draw us a card, but it also allows us to play an extra land to get to the mana we need to start casting our five color spells.

Another card to consider is Jodah, Archmage Eternal to make some of our more expensive five color spells only cost WUBRG, which Jenson can make for five generic mana to make it even easier.

We can also use a variety of the multicolor charms to provide a bunch of modal interaction to be more flexible. Naya Charm for damage, recursion, or denying an attack from a bunch of creatures, Abzan Charm for removal, card draw, or growing our craetures, Boros Charm for damage, protection, and getting damage through we have a wide variety of options.

There is also a ton of removal in multicolor that we can use, Void Rend being one of the better options because it can target any nonland permanent and can’t be countered. Anguished Unmaking is a solid option as a way to exile a nonland permanent at the cost of a bit of life, and Duneblast as a board wipe that excludes one creature.

Now we can talk about the five color cards we are going to play in order to get value from Jenson.

Jared Carthalion is an example of a card that gets a ton of use for having our things being multicolor and a massive benefit if they were more than one color, which Leyline of the Guildpact does, by making a Kavu that’s all colors, puts +1/+1 counters on creatures based on the number of colors they are, and returns multicolor cards to our hand, drawing a card and making Treasures if it was all colors.

There are even a few creatures that can cheat on being all colors like Transguild Courier, Sphinx of the Guildpact, and Fallaji Wayfarer which either have a generic mana cost in the case of Transguild Courier and Sphinx of the Guildpact or are cheap to cast in the case of Fallaji Wayfarer.

Conflux can help us tutor up five cards that we need, Iridian Maelstrom to destroy each creature that isn’t five colors if we have the Leyline of the Guildpact set up, Maelstrom Archangel to cast a spell for free when it deals combat damage, The Prismatic Bridge to cheat creatures or Planeswalkers to the battlefield, and Progenitus for having a hard to interact with threat.

Jenson is more of a support Commander who on his own doesn’t too much, but can help you by giving you the opportunity to play big splashy spells and gain a benefit from it. This deck leans to a slower value strategy, but can definitely help get a win on occasion.

We just need to unban Coalition Victory to win more often.

Thank you for reading, see you tomorrow for the next Daily Commander!

Peace,

From, J.M. Casual