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Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero
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Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero

Legendary Creature — Alien Human Hero
1RR
· Mono-Red
Flying, haste When Jack of Hearts dies, he deals damage equal to his power to each creature. Power-up — {4}{R}{R}: Discard your hand, then draw three cards. Put two +1/+1 counters on Jack of Hearts. (Activate each power-up ability only once. Reduce the cost by his mana cost if he entered this turn.)
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36 lands · total $66.51 budget: $100
R 28 C 3
Composition 27 Basics 5 Fetch Lands 3 Other Nonbasic 1 Hideaway Lands (Lorwyn)

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$3.84 2

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$62.67 6

Other Nonbasics

$0.00 1

Basics

$1.89 27

About This Manabase

Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero is a Mono-Red commander with a R color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Reliquary Tower, Rogue's Passage when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Wooded Foothills, Bloodstained Mire, Arid Mesa, Spinerock Knoll , plus 2 more for Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.