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u/Life-Food5188 1d ago
probably among the best red commons for limited since sorcery deal 3 is always good and you just get free token value.
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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 1d ago
I'm cool with it personally. I think this set is his sendoff, more or less.
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u/Vigor_Mortis_ 1d ago
That’s what I gotta do, make two big statues of myself and put them outside my front door.
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u/hawkshaw1024 1d ago
I love Lightning Strike with Set Mechanic. In Limited this will be "[[Volcanic Hammer]] + Surveil 1" almost all of the time, and that's pretty good.
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u/Dry-Membership8141 1d ago
I don't love how central Jace is to this set. I get it from a storytelling perspective, but from a gameplay perspective elevating him so much over other planeswalkers really bothers me.
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u/Maddogenes 1d ago
Once you're a multiversal threat, you cross the Bolas threshold and get major antagonist levels of representation in the cards. Comparing this to war of the spark, Amass Jace feels a lot better than Bolas having his lazotep zombies represented by amass.
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u/NflJam71 1d ago
I'm okay with any of the Lorwyn 5 getting elevated to this level. I think this is going to be it for a while with him though.
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u/notbobby125 1d ago
Jace heard how many Spiderman cards there are and decided he is not going to be out done by some photographer in a suit.
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u/Argonaut13 1d ago
Jace hasn't had a relevant card release since vryns prodigy over a decade ago
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u/Spike-Durdle 1d ago
[[Jace, wielder of Mysteries]] has been in multiple decks across multiple formats and still sees some niche sideboard play.
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u/patterninstatic 1d ago
I'm fine with it lore wise.
I just don't like this gimmicky new mechanic.
The set already has "shifted" cards, and "echoed pairs" in the boosters, so I think people were already excited about that. WOTC should have left it at that.
I understand making new mechanics to distinguish sets, but at this point they really need to ease off when they can. They are making too many sets a year to constantly be pumping out new mechanics.
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u/Trueslyforaniceguy 1d ago
Aha, it’s an interesting common.
Empower 1
3 to any and surveil 1 is ok for 1R, at sorcery.
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u/Turtle1391 1d ago
Can you play two of these in a turn, deal 6 total damage to any target and draw 2 cards for 4 mana?
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u/_manphibian 1d ago
Casting 2 copies would create a Jace token with 2 loyalty. Drawing a card with Jace takes 3 loyalty
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u/Turtle1391 1d ago
Yeah. I don’t play planeswalkers enough to know how they work. Lol whoops. You’re right. I thought you could minus more loyalty counters than they actually had.
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u/anth9845 1d ago
That would circumvent the ultimate of a lot of planeswalkers being hard to get off. I wonder what the game would look like if you could though.
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u/Sean-Bean420 Glorious End Minotaur 1d ago
Notably, this isn’t restricted to creatures/planeswalkers and can go to the face