First printed in March of the Machine (2023)
Jin-Gitaxias 
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Ward 
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.
5/5
The Great Synthesis
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control this Saga.
II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
- Illustrated by
- Ekaterina Burmak
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (6)
- A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won’t resolve until you’re done casting spells, so the permanents they become can’t be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can’t cast that Aura targeting that creature.
- If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
- For chapter I of The Great Synthesis, the number of cards you draw is determined as the ability resolves. If you no longer control The Great Synthesis at that time, your maximum hand size remains unchanged.
- If a spell has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost. - Once you’ve activated Jin-Gitaxias’s last ability, it doesn’t matter what happens to the number of cards in your hand. The ability will resolve even if you have six or fewer cards in your hand by that time.
- All the spells you cast due to chapter III are cast during the resolution of that ability. You can cast them in any order, and timing restrictions based on the cards’ types are ignored. Once you’re done casting spells, before any of them resolve, The Great Synthesis will be exiled and return as Jin-Gitaxias.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March of the Machine (MOM), Premier Draft | 56.2% | +1.5 | +2.0 | 9658 |
| March of the Machine (MOM), Sealed | 54.4% | -1.0 | +0.2 | 640 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
19 combos, the most popular first:
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Archaeomancer + Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Eternal Witness + Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Mnemonic Wall + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Shipwreck Dowser + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Salvager of Secrets + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Skullwinder + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Time Stretch + Warden of the Eye
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Izzet Chronarch + Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Timeless Witness + Time Stretch
- Lock, Near-infinite turns: Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis + Time Stretch + Vampire Charmseeker