Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Legendary Creature — Elf Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (16)

TheoryCrafter on No sacrifice

1 month ago

Angel of Jubilation

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Slicer, Hired Muscle  ^Flip

Coward_Token on Murders at Karlov Manor

2 months ago

Disappointed with the new cards in the Boros deck. Too much politicking and random burn, not enough goading synergy. And the one good goading matters card doesn't work with Marisi, Breaker of the Coil or Jon Irenicus, Shattered One, my favored goading commanders. (Well, at least my rank #3 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer is happy.)

Mave on endles whispers edh

5 months ago

I read the thread when I tried to look up the rules for the cards which is kinda important for EDH Endless Whispers. (I plan on including it in Obeka)

In a 1v1 match it mostly tries to get the best creature of an opponent while donating negative effects. But in commander it becomes a game of "hot potato" where you can never be sure who gets the creatures of another player but you can decide what "garbage" you donate. That is the gist of what the deck will do in a multiplayer game.

Depending on what you give away you may want cards that can counter triggered abilities in case ove Leveler, Sky Swallower, Boldwyr Heavyweights, Eater of Days, Hunted Wumpus, Inverter of Truth, Dust Elemental, Avatar of Discord, Indentured Djinn Ebon Drake Plague Reaver Master of the Feast Tempting Wurm, the haunted one like Hunted Troll, Hunted Dragon,Hunted Dragon, Hunted Lammasu or Hunted Phantasm. Personally I would use Obeka, Brute Chronologist to counter the ETB of the creatures you play by ending the turn and then giving them to an opponent. But that only works for when the creature with negative effect enters the battlefield during your turn. But it is a great plan B in case you don't have Endless Whispers to give your opponents creatures from the list above by simply playing an 8/8 trample for {2}{R}{R} then ending the turn before the trigger resolves.

Other options are Jon Irenicus, Shattered One or Blim, Comedic Genius both want your opponents to control your creatures. If you just want the effect of giving your opponents negative ETBs you can also build a deck on The Beamtown Bullies. But including Endless Whispers in this deck can backfire by giving you one of the negative effects if the creature dies. And it also is hard to let e.g. Leveler enter the battlefield to donate it through endless whispers. What helps with that may be to manifest a creature with a negative effect with e.g. Scroll of Fate. You can also manifest creatures with negative effect from your library but that is a bit more random.

To prevent getting creatures with negative effects from your opponents you to gain hexproof. There are plenty of effects giving yourself hexproof in white but I couldn't find a good commander for that. To gain hexproof yourself in a non white deck you most likely need Orbs of Warding which may be the way to go to prevent opponents to return the hot potato to you. Which is what I do in Obeka (sadly I don't have any list online of that deck).

If you like Endless Whispers to take your opponent cards however you might rather want to play Grave Betrayal or Lim-Dul the Necromancer. Overall it can still be used as a politicle tool. Especially if you donate one of the Haunted once you can build a pact with another player that you always trade them with each other to get more and more tokens.

Talking tokens it is also possible to put Endless Whispers in Grismold, the Dreadsower which gets into the direction of Dagger Burn known through Rampaging Ferocidon, Trespasser's Curse, Massacre Wurm, Slaughter Specialist and e.g. Illness in the Ranks/Virulent Plague. Whenever you donate Hunted Troll to an opponent or it enters the battlefield you let the 1/1 faeris directly die causing Grismold to trigger and also cards like Poison-Tip Archer.

It is also possible to play with effects like Plaguecrafter, Abyssal Gorestalker, Gravelighter. The player who gets the creature has to sacrifice one creature less and choses who sacrifice one creature less the next turn. But as long as you profit from death triggers via e.g. enchantments or artifacts you will profit most from your favourite card.

I also like Rakdos the Defiler to use Endless Whisper. After all one can donate some negative effects and if the opponent sacrifices creatures they have to donate them to someone else. Altough that also works better in 1v1.

I hope the explanation helps to find the right deck to play Endless Whispers in Commander.

Max_Hammer on Rakdos Santa Deck

10 months ago

Bronze Bombshell is one you missed. (: Also, you might wanna make it Grixis for the fact that there's plenty of blue gift cards. Donate and Jon Irenicus, Shattered One are two prime examples. Also, cut one of your copies of Blim, most of the time having 4 legendries is too much and you'd be better off just including more efficient draw.

Delphen7 on What's your favorite mechanic, and …

1 year ago

I really enjoy storm and donate.

Storm really brings to life the advanced planning aspect of the game, where you have limited resources, and you have to piece your way to a win. Not some beatdown deck that executes the exact same line every time.

However storm does tend to be very solitaire, so in social games I prefer donate effects (Slicer, Hired Muscle  ^Flip, Zedruu the Greathearted, Jon Irenicus, Shattered One), because I can manipulate the threat level of players and overall make a more interesting game

NTakamura on Jon Irenicus, Shattered One and …

1 year ago

If I own Jon Irenicus, Shattered One give Jon it to player B. I know now he can't attack me but what happens when Player B passes Jon to Player C. Would I still be not be able to be attacked? And once Jon makes it to Player D who is Jon able to attack? So what then happen when Jon finally makes it back to me after all that who is he able to attack?

Side question during the passing of Jon would I ever get Jon ability to draw?

Eareph on When does the targeting of …

1 year ago

Am I able to order the effects of Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia and Jon Irenicus, Shattered One in such a way as to create the 2/2 Decayed Zombie token first and then give it to an opponent with Jon Irenicus?

Py_o on This creature can't be sacrificed …

1 year ago

So I'm building a Jon Irenicus, Shattered One deck. What I'm concerned with is " "This creature can't be sacrificed." " So my thought is : Enchant a creature that can't be sacrificed with Parasitic Implant. My question: 1. Will the creature keep trying to sacrifice itself and create a game ending/drawing loop? or 2. Will the creature fail to sacrifice itself and produce a 1/1 each turn? or 3. Will the creature fail to sacrifice itself and therefore I don't get a 1/1?