All 18 Jeskai Cards in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Ranked

Last updated on April 13, 2025

Flamehold Grappler | Illustration by Wayne Wu

In original Khans of Tarkir, Jeskai cards were strongly tied to the prowess mechanic and cared about casting noncreature spells, what we usually call spellslinger nowadays. With the flurry mechanic, the new incentive is to cast two spells each turn.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm brings 18 new Jeskai cards for the white, blue, and red aficionados. Some of these will impact Constructed formats, to say the least. We’ll take a look at each of these cards through the lenses of flurry prowess, or anything that these three colors tend to do best. Let’s take a look and see if Narset’s followers have what it takes to battle in Tarkir.

What Are Jeskai Cards in Tarkir: Dragonstorm?

Shiko, Paragon of the Way | Illustration by Victor Adame Minguez

Jeskai Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) cards are all the cards in the set with a Jeskai color identity. We’re not restricted to gold cards only, so we can consider lands and artifacts that generate mana of three colors, for example, or creatures that are white but can have a red and blue activated ability. Also, we’re considering both the main set (TDM) and the Commander set (TDC) for these rankings. Mono-colored cards with Jeskai in their name, or cards that just have the Jeskai watermark are out.

#18. Narset’s Rebuke

Narset's Rebuke is your typical Limited removal spell (the expensive red one). In this case, you get Jeskai mana for your efforts, so for 5 mana you take down a creature, cast another spell, and trigger flurry. It also fixes your mana! Since you can cast a card afterwards, it’s not even that bad to cast it on your turn.

#17. Jeskai Devotee

Jeskai Devotee is an interesting 2-drop for mana fixing in Limited, and you can even attack with it because it’s not a mana dork. Sometimes this attacks as a 3/3 when you trigger flurry. Nothing special here, your ordinary common 2-drop that you’ll happily play in 3+ color decks.

#16. Jeskai Monument

Jeskai Monument is interesting as a way to fix your mana and thin out your deck. You can blink it for more value later in the game, and even cash it in for Bird tokens. You’d play that in a Limited deck for sure, and I can see this card fitting in Commander decks that care about birds or tokens, such as Akim, the Soaring Wind.

#15. Monastery Messenger

Monastery Messenger is still in Limited territory, as you would play a 2/3 flying vigilance for 4 mana or that sometimes sets up a good spell as your next draw. You shouldn’t pay 5 or more mana for this card, ever.

#14. Riverwheel Sweep

Tapping a creature and putting three stun counters is a bad Limited removal spell, but Riverwheel Sweep gets your card back with a little bit of selection. It helps your tempo if you play a land, or your card advantage/flurry if you exile a spell.

#13. Jeskai Brushmaster

With Jeskai Brushmaster, we’re approaching casual Commander playability. A 2/4 double strike is not the worst, and prowess synergizes very well with double strike, as does any power-enhancing combat trick or aura. Monstrous Rage, 1 mana, take 12 trample double strike damage.

#12. Perilous Landscape

Perilous Landscape is a reprint of a Modern Horizons 3 land, and it’s a heck of a mana fixer, or a “cheap fetch land” for synergies. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have green on it since many of the landfall synergies require green to work, but it’s cheap to include in any Jeskai Commander deck. Lands that fix your mana and can be cycled are worthy inclusions.

#11. New Way Forward

Deflecting Palm saw a fairly large amount of play, but we’re talking about a 2-mana trick.

New Way Forward has the same effect for 5 mana, but you also draw some cards. Both cards help you stay alive, survive damage-based combos, and sometimes you’ll Fog a 6/6 and draw six cards with this.

#10. Jeskai Shrinekeeper

Jeskai Shrinekeeper toes the line of a powerful Limited card and a not-good-enough-to-see Constructed play card. I mean, it’s a good draft uncommon as a 3/3 flying haste that draws a card and gains a life when it hits.

#9. Rediscover the Way

Rediscover the Way is a saga that gives you two Anticipates. In a way, it’s like having Narset, Parter of Veils around. This card works very well with prowess creatures, triggering them when it's cast, and when you finally get to chapter three, distributing double strike bonuses.

#8. Mystic Monastery

Mystic Monastery is an easy inclusion in Jeskai decks as it easily fixes your mana. This is also an uncommon card, so it’s easy to acquire, and you get quality fixing for cheap. It helps immensely on MTG Arena too, so you don’t spend rare wildcards on your mana bases. This card is perfectly fine in a Standard control deck.

#7. Jeskai Revelation

More cards for Narset, Enlightened Master?

Jeskai Revelation is obviously powerful as a 7-mana instant that gets you so much value. Between drawing cards, dealing damage, and adding bodies, this card covers all bases. The annoying question is: Is it better than similar cards like Inspired Ultimatum or Magma Opus? Since you’re probably cheating this card's mana cost with effects like Torrential Gearhulk and the like, you want the better card. This fits decks that want to cast expensive spells for free, or maybe as a one-of in a Standard control deck.

#6. Flamehold Grappler

Flamehold Grappler is huge with the right synergies. You’ll either pair it with something like the plot mechanic, or Unearth this card and follow it with another spell that'll be copied. It can also be very good with cards like Jace Reawakened. It's a nice 3/3 first strike by itself, and even playing it on turn 4 with a Consider offers good value.

#5. Whirlwind of Thought

Whirlwind of Thought is a Jeskai EDH staple that provides so much value when you’re spellslinging. It keeps the cards coming to obtain a high storm count, and it's just an all-around great card advantage engine.

#4. Elsha, Threefold Master

I saw this card and immediately thought of control sideboards, but, well, it’s a Commander card. Elsha, Threefold Master is very fragile, but one hit may turn the tide of the battle in your favor, especially if it’s equipped or enchanted. It requires some building around, but if it hits as a 4/4 and makes four tokens with prowess, you’re in business.

#3. Shiko, Paragon of the Way

Now we’re approaching the best Jeskai nonreprint cards. Here’s where WotC put the power. Shiko, Paragon of the Way is a very solid card, being a good-sized dragon that gives you any spell in your graveyard that costs 3 or less for free. It triggers flurry cards by itself. If you have a Divination in your ‘yard, it’s the biggest Mulldrifter ever, but you could also have a powerful saga, a removal spell, and much more.

#2. Narset, Jeskai Waymaster

Narset, Jeskai Waymaster has a lot of potential in many ways. First, its ability is a may, so you don’t have the built-in risk of discarding a good hand. Second, you can dump your hand of spells, and draw that many afterwards. It also works very well with plot, flurry, and impulse draws. Draw synergies, reanimator, harmonize, renew, madness—the list goes on.

#1. Shiko and Narset, Unified

As the face of the Jeskai Striker Commander deck, here’s a solid one for the EDH crowd. Already a respectable body as a 4/4 flying vigilance, Shiko and Narset, Unified cares about big spells. You want to cast two spells a turn, often a small one to set up for the big one. That should be anything good that targets a player or permanent – Time Warp, Treachery, Clone Legion, the list is long. You may also build flurry with rituals that expand your mana capabilities, as well as cards that make expensive spells cheaper to get the most out of this commander.

Wrap Up

Monastery Messenger | Illustration by Forrest Imel

Jeskai didn’t get anything “fundamentally broken” like Jeskai Ascendancy. That said, I definitely expect good things from Shiko, Paragon of the Way and Narset, Jeskai Waymaster, at least in Standard or more casual formats. Jeskai also has nice role-players this time around, like Rediscover the Way. It didn’t get the most or the best toys, but it’s still a force to be reckoned with.

What about you guys? Are you excited about the new Jeskai offerings? What new cards are you definitely putting into your WUR decks? Let me know in the comments section below, or let’s discuss it over on the Draftsim Discord.

Interested in the other 3-color clans? Check out the best Temur cards, Mardu cards, Abzan cards, and Sultai cards from Tarkir: Dragonstorm.

Thanks for reading, and see you next time.