Speculation Points Towards Reprint for Top-Tier $40 Red Staple

Last updated on January 31, 2026

Jeska, Thrice Reborn | Illustration by Yongjae Choi

New art for Secrets of Strixhaven depicts the planeswalker Jeska, leading to speculation of a Jeska's Will reprint as part of the set’s confirmed Mystical Archive rerun. Magic Vtuber Kaede Usagi pointed out on X that the illustration of Jeska on a new box mirrors the art the original Strixhaven set used for Memory Lapse as promotional material:

Source: x.com

If true, this would be a major reprint for a critical card in high-powered Commander, including cEDH.

Why Jeska’s Will, and Not Another Jeska Card?

Jeska, Warrior Adept | Illustration by rk post

Jeska is an old, red-aligned character and planeswalker from Magic’s lore, last seen during the events of Time Spiral, where she sacrificed herself to close a temporal rift and triggered the Mending, a Multiverse-scale event not unlike the opening of the Omenpaths. Despite her prominent role in the lore, Jeska has been depicted on only three cards: Jeska, Warrior Adept, Jeska, Thrice Reborn, and Jeska's Will.

As the Mystical Archive is dedicated to cataloging iconic instants and sorceries throughout Magic’s history, in keeping with the spellslinger themes that permeate the entire plane, the only possible Jeska card to get a reprint is Jeska's Will.

A Pricey Commander Staple

Greed | Illustration by Izzy

This reprint matters because Jeska's Will demands a high price of over $40 due to its prominence in Commander as a high-powered staple.

Jeska's Will was first printed in Commander Legends—the only full set printing it has seen. It’s been reprinted in the Commander products for Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate (the Exit from Exile precon[/card]) and Murders at Karlov Manor (the Deadly Disguise precon), and a Secret Lair. But these reprints haven’t kept the price from $40 or higher.

Why Is Jeska’s Will So Good?

Jeska's Will | Illustration by Izzy

Jeska's Will sees play at highest levels of Commander due to its powerful combination of mana generation and card draw. Mana and cards are Magic’s two most important resources. Many of Magic’s most broken cards—The One Ring, Treasure Cruise, Mox Opal, Mana Crypt, to name a few—are broken because they provide immense access to one of these two resources. Putting them together on a single effect can be a recipe for an absurd, even disastrous card; consider Nadu, Winged Wisdom, a card banned in multiple formats due to the incredible card advantage and mana it generated alongside cards like Shuko.

While Jeska’s Will falls short of Nadu in that it doesn’t deserve to join the Winged Design Mistake on the ban list, delivering both mana and card advantage still makes it worthy of its spot on the Game Changers list. Getting three extra cards and a surge of mana often leads to a great turn, if not a winning one. And it often generates a lot of mana given the nature of the power levels it plays at. High-powered Commander, including cEDH, revolves around powerful card draw engines like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and The One Ring. With cards like that keeping opposing hands full, you can expect to generate plenty of mana.

The intense nature of these formats also rewards explosive play, which helps mitigate the (slight) downsides to Jeska’s Will. It’s a very ephemeral card; it makes mana as a ritual, so you don’t get a permanent mana source, and it’s an impulse draw, so you have a narrow window in which to cast the spells it exiles. In pods with a Bracket level appropriate to dumping that mana into a Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame win or a crazy combo turn, those downsides are meaningless. It doesn’t matter how temporary the effect is if it wins that turn, or provides a substantial enough advantage, like getting your copy of The One Ring down turn 2 because you had a good start with some fast mana.

It’s no exaggeration to call Jeska’s Will one of the strongest red cards in the Commander format. A proper reprint in a main set would drive the price down and make the format that much more accessible—and it makes you wonder what other goodies might be hiding in Mystical Archive II.