Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor OTJ 0203 · uncommon
Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor · {2}{R}{W} · Legendary Creature — Kor Advisor · When Ertha Jo enters, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." Whenever you activate an ability that targets a creature or player, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. · Power / toughness: 2/4
- Price
- from $0.241 printing
- Win rate
- 56.0% GIH 29,497 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickMake multiple bodies and use targeted activated abilities to concentrate power on the attacker most likely to connect.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 16,515 wins in 29,497 card-in-hand instances.
27,745 distinct games · 10,147 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 16–May 27, 2024.
17Lands file dated May 30, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Make multiple bodies and use targeted activated abilities to concentrate power on the attacker most likely to connect. Pair adds a Mercenary whose power-boosting ability Ertha Jo can copy, supporting a large attack without another card.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Make multiple bodies and use targeted activated abilities to concentrate power on the attacker most likely to connect. Look for support such as Prickly Pair and Prosperity Tycoon.
- What to take next
- Pair adds a Mercenary whose power-boosting ability Ertha Jo can copy, supporting a large attack without another card.
- Wrong pick
- Ertha Jo copies activated abilities with creature or player targets, not ordinary creature-targeting spells.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Make multiple bodies and use targeted activated abilities to concentrate power on the attacker most likely to connect. Pair adds a Mercenary whose power-boosting ability Ertha Jo can copy, supporting a large attack without another card.
Draft data
+1.8 pp vs 54.1% average · 29,497 instances
Premier Draft · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · average from 1,172,393 games
#121 of 347 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.6 on average (111,925 packs).
30 of 82 multicolor cards · 12 of 30 multicolor uncommon cards.
35,338.9 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 16–May 27, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 55.1% · 12,324 instances
● Drawn later 56.6% · 17,173 instances
In hand 56.0% · 29,497 instances
Unseen in deck 53.2% · 45,799 instances
+2.8 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Red–White RW59.2%8,797 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.0% · 29,497 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Prickly Pair26,096 games with both in the deckMystical Tether23,790 games with both in the deckTrained Arynx23,247 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 65% of 347 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster | $0.24 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.36 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 33 packs (3.00%) · 30.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 309 packs (0.32%) · 11.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 31 packs (3.25%) · 69.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Michal Ivan, OTJ 203 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Red–White cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗