Card
MJ, Rising Star
Mana cost {2}{W}
Legendary Creature — Human Performer 2/3
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on MJ.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · MSC · #773
- Cheapest printing
- €0.27
- EDHREC salt
- 0.08
- Color identity
- White
- Keywords
- Vigilance
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
6 known combos.
- Shalai and Hallar + MJ, Rising Star
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite damage, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Walking Ballista + MJ, Rising Star
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Triskelion + MJ, Rising Star
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and MJ, Rising Star's ability triggers only once. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause MJ, Rising Star's ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability of MJ, Rising Star triggers just once for each life-gaining event, regardless of how much life is gained. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If MJ, Rising Star is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, she won't receive a counter from her ability in time to save her. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, MJ, Rising Star's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast