Palace Jailer

Creature — Human Soldier

When Palace Jailer enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.

When Palace Jailer enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Discussion (50)

DevoMelvminster on Bounce and Ye Shall Be Healed

3 weeks ago

Hey, thanks for the suggestions. Many of these were in the deck at some point or another. I feel like the vast majority simply didn’t make the cut because they weren’t as efficient mana wise as the alternatives and the extra redundancy wasn’t needed. That, or they were more combat related and I, surprisingly, almost never win via combat. The specific ones that do not fall into those two categories i’ll address below:

Blasting Station - i actually kick around the idea of adding this as another wincon pretty often. If i were to slot another one in, it’d be this, or Altar of Dementia , or maaaaybe Test of Endurance / Felidar Sovereign

Arch of Orazca / Bonders' Enclave - these just ended up being more expensive to use, or less consistent than War Room , keeping in mind that God-Eternal Oketra doesn’t activate enclave and that actually does end up being relevant pretty often. Anyways, with Expedition Map and Weathered Wayfarer , 1 draw land seems to be sufficient as emergency fuel.

Cathars' Crusade - It gets wild in this deck for sure, and when i was leaning less into life gain, and was winning with Altar of Dementia more, it took the place of Angelic Chorus . But nowadays, I just don’t swing that often and i’m not running altar right now so it’s out.

Enduring Renewal - this is an interesting one... I’d honestly have to sit down for a bit and figure out how it interacts with everything to give a good answer here. I’ll look at it more.

Search for Glory - This is a great one. I’d like to run it, but I don’t have many good targets outside of Mangara, the Diplomat and the monuments, which i have a couple tutors for already. The biggest problem, silly as it may sound, is that i’d want to run snow lands, and for thematic purposes i’m running the full art amonkhet plains, so i can’t do that. Solid suggestion though.

Palace Jailer - this ended up getting replaced with Skyclave Apparition for cheaper and more versatile removal. I do miss it sometimes though. I love being the monarch. Which remind me... Throne of the High City could be fun, but my colored lands are already stretched pretty thing for a deck that so desperately needs white mana. Really can’t drop any more.

Love getting suggestions and talking through options for the deck. Thanks again. I really enjoy your decks as well!

king-saproling on Bounce and Ye Shall Be Healed

3 weeks ago

Thoughts on these? Cloud Key , Ancestral Statue , Enduring Renewal , Blasting Station , Palace Jailer , Bonders' Enclave , Arch of Orazca , Throne of the High City , Cathars' Crusade , Goldnight Commander , Mantle of Leadership , Skyscanner , Blinking Spirit , Search for Glory (finds monuments), Thalia's Lancers , Crovax, Ascendant Hero

king-saproling on Gisela's beatdown

1 month ago

You might like these: Axgard Armory , Arcbond , Mistveil Plains , Burning Earth , Angel's Trumpet , Palace Jailer , Berserkers' Onslaught , True Conviction , Knollspine Dragon , Worn Powerstone , Coalition Relic , AEther Flash , Repercussion , Lightmine Field , Powerstone Minefield , Pyrostatic Pillar

DevoMelvminster on Bounce and Ye Shall Be Healed

2 months ago

Swapped a couple more cards around:

Wrath of God is out for Ajani, Strength of the Pride . Ajani costs the same, usually comes in able to ultimate, and exile opponents creatures AND artifacts, and if not, he’ll gain us a heap of life so we can next turn. Basically another Elspeth Tirel .

Palace Jailer is out for Recruiter of the Guard . Basically, it was this or buy an Auriok Champion to ensure I get a life gain engine online as soon as possible. Auriok costs so much right now, and recruiter can be bounced and played repeatedly to find any number of wonderful creatures from our library.

Heliod, Sun-Crowned is out for Archangel of Thune . Archangel is just better, and I forgot it existed. Heliod’s job was to make things big enough to swing for a kill (sounds boring) or make stuff big enough to make pulling off wins with Altar of Dementia easier. Again, archangel just does it better.

That’s it for now.

king-saproling on Honestly, What Am I Thinking with This?

3 months ago

This looks really fun! You might like these: Personal Incarnation , Vassal's Duty , Sivvi's Valor , Blood of the Martyr , Palace Jailer , Lightmine Field , Bullwhip , Arcum's Whistle , Inventors' Fair , Arch of Orazca , Bonders' Enclave , Throne of the High City , Archon of Coronation , Court of Grace , Palace Sentinels , Coveted Jewel

king-saproling on Life Support

3 months ago

You might like these: Scrapyard Recombiner , Light of Promise , Sunbond , Triskelavus , Pentavus , Mindless Automaton , Crystalline Crawler , Workhorse , Inventors' Fair , Arch of Orazca , Mind's Eye , Palace Jailer , Cauldron of Souls

multimedia on Orzhov token life drain

3 months ago

Hey, nice budget version with some creative strategies. You forgot Sol Ring :)

Consider more repeatable draw from effects you don't have to cast since you have a lot of cards to assemble for the combos and then you don't lose life from Liesa.

• Dawn of Hope
• Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• Mask of Memory
• Skullclamp
• Court of Grace
• Palace Jailer

Dawn of Hope is nice with Liesa because she has lifelink thus when she does damage pay 2 mana to draw. Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip uses life to draw. Liesa has flying and there's quite a few other fliers here who can more easily do combat damage to a player for Mask of Memory .

Court of Grace and Palace Jailer can be repeatable draw with the monarch and Grace can be repeatable 4/4 Angels or 1/1 Spirits. Cards that create tokens are good with Skullclamp especially 1/1 tokens such as from Keeper of the Accord and Leonin Warleader .

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Some cards to consider cutting:

• Harmless Assault
• Mishra's Self-Replicator
• Withercrown
• Rally the Ranks
• Demon of Loathing
• Bloodline Pretender
• Replicating Ring

Cards to consider cutting are Harmless Assault since four mana for this effect is too much. Mishra's Self-Replicator there's much better five drops here to cast. Withercrown subpar for a removal spell since your opponent can just ignore it until they find a way to remove it because losing 1 life is not much to worry about. Rally the Ranks since +1/+1 anthem effect is not really worth it.

Demon of Loathing is not as good as the other high CMC creatures. Bloodline Pretender only good when you have Nexus or Conspiracy on the battlefield because you have to choose a creature type. Instead play a card that can help to setup Nexus or Conspiracy? Sol Ring could replace Replicating Ring .

Good luck with your deck.

king-saproling on Aurelia EDH

3 months ago

Helm of the Host equipped to Aurelia would give you infinite combats.

You might like these too: Neheb, the Eternal , Axgard Armory , Idyllic Tutor , Lightning Runner , Flamerush Rider , Captain Lannery Storm , Goldvein Pick , Prying Blade , Sword of the Animist , Tome of Legends , Splinter Twin , Palace Jailer , Bonders' Enclave , Spinerock Knoll , Chance for Glory