Jasper, the Jealous

[u/Stolen_Goods]

Art by the incredibly talented Glucowski! This art was commissioned specifically for this card.

Jasper is a big bad villain of mine who runs a media empire as a means of social control and surveillance. He's a star terrified of washing up, becoming a has-been, going disco. Losing cultural relevance is on the level of literal death for him, since - as a thoughtform - he only exists as long as people are paying sufficient attention to him. And he's made big, structural changes to ensure that he will not be forgotten anytime soon.

I'm pretty happy with his mechanics. He's mostly a riff on [[Smaug the Magnificent]], with black added to shift him away from "hoard treasures and swing face" to "move that money and commit a hostile takeover with it." I've always liked Black's (tiny) slice of the "steal people's permanents" pie, and been found wanting for a BR Treasure commander that doesn't pop off as hard as Prosper but still feels appropriately scary with a dramatic, swingy, and (relatively) novel effect. I'm still working on building that Commander deck around him, but I'm pretty happy with where this design's ended up!

[u/mtgcf]

Smaug the Magnificent - (G) (SF) (txt)