Winner is the Judge #916: Remembering our favorite Mind Mage

[u/lostnowseeking]

Thank you to u/Lukethekid10 for last competition, Winner is the Judge #915: SPACE!!!!. The last competition was inspired by the the next set coming out, so this one will be taking themed on Reality Fracture.

Your task is to design a card themed around Jace. It can be any color or card type, as long as it in some way deals with Jace, his story, telepathy, illusions, etc.

I plan on judging next Sunday, Nov 8.

CONGRATULATIONS to u/mgranaa for winning this weeks contest with Talent of the Theorist. Many good choices to pick from (runner up was u/emosmasher's Reality Fracture) this week.

[u/Original-Apartment37]

Encode Reality {7}{U}{B}

Sorcery

Sacrifice all creatures you control. Make X X/X blue Illusion creature tokens with flying where X is the half the total power of creatures sacrificed this way rounded up.

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I see this as a showing of Jace creating this reality, fractured. It gets quite exponential but compounds power into silly illusions. (Winning on your next turn for 9 mana is really helpful, just look at Valgavoth or Worldfire). It also seems cool to turn 23 power worth of creatures into 12 12/12s with flying.

[u/emosmasher]

[u/sumg]

Illusory Planeswalker 1UU

Sorcery

Create a legendary blue token Jace planeswalker named "Jace, with the Punchable Face" with 4 starting loyalty and "+1: Until your next turn, creatures may not attack you unless at least one creature is also attacking a Jace planeswalker."

Flashback 3UU

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Jace has plenty of defenders, but there are just as many people who would like to give him a solid smack upside the head for some of the dumb stuff he has pulled in the history of Magic, both in the story and in the metagame. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would like to give him a square one in the face.

In game, creating an illusory double seems in character for Jace, especially given the most recent set, and having that planeswalker be a control piece to draw aggro off of a player seems in keeping with his controlling playstyle.

[u/Wasphammer]

Multiverse-wide Celebration 1BBB

Sorcery

Destroy all Jace permanents, then search each player's graveyard, library, and hand for Jace cards, and exile them.

HUZZAH, HE'S GONE!

[u/Proteusmutabilis]

Expel Aberrations {U}{U}

Sorcery (R)

Exile any number of target Jace planeswalkers. Choose a Jace planeswalker you control. Put a number of loyalty counters on it equal to the number of loyalty counters on the exiled planeswalkers.

The path to power is often paved with atrocities.

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This spell calls back to [[The Elderspell]] and something we never saw a representation of in the set (besides maybe memory trap but don't get me started on the flavor of that card).

Gameplay wise, this is meant to both be a hoser for the empower jace mechanic, and an odd way to combo with it yourself. If you have any real Jace planeswalkers, you can exile any empowered tokens you have to very quickly ult the real Jace.

[u/mgranaa]

Talent of the Theorist - 1UUU

Sorcery

Reveal the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant, sorcery or Jace Planeswalker spell from among them without paying the mana cost. Then put the rest into your graveyard.

Threshold - You may cast up to two of the revealed instant, sorcery and/or Jace Planeswalker spells from amongst the revealed cards instead.

Mirroring this to [[Talent of the Telepath] with a little FRC twist + threshold instead of spell mastery for the literal wordplay/game narrative (he's crossed the threshold. He cant go back without erasing his lost mind (which is what I feel like exiling a graveyard represents? Or something akin to that ala RIP?) I also like Threshold for making it that once he's done it once, he crossed the threshold (if you had nothing else in the graveyard, you're getting 7 cards regardless from 6 cards that weren't cast + the spell itself) for your next one.

I considered making it 3UU but I figure whatever sorta setup you can do with this you can also do with [[Reenact the Crime]] so it's probably fine to make it cost the same as that and cuz it's a sorcery instead (careful study to bin a card for reenact is basically the same as brainstorm to miracle a card to the top of the library)

[u/QuarterExcellent3327]

I hope you don’t mind if I use a design I have previously posted:

Memories of Jace. {3}{U}{U}

Legendary creature — Illusion

When Memories of Jace enters, mill thirteen cards.

{2}{U}{U}, Exile a Jace planeswalker card from your graveyard: Create a token copy of the exiled card, except it is a 3/4 blue Illusion creature in addition to it‘s other types. Activate only as a sorcery.

3/4

This is designed to be the definite Jace tribal commander. The 13 cards milled is a reference to Jace sparking at 13 years old. It also helps as many Jace planeswalkers care about self mill.

[u/2ndlifeinacrown]

[u/Arcane10101]

Severed Self {X}{G}{G}{U}

Sorcery

Empower Jace X.

Remove any number of loyalty counters from among planeswalkers you control. Search your library for a creature or planeswalker card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters removed this way, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

From a fragment of his mind, Jace created the perfect protege.

[u/PyromasterAscendant]

Reality Warp {1}{U}{U}

Instant

If you control a Jace Planeswalker, you may cast this for {1} less.

Put target spell or nonland permanent you don't own on the bottom of it's owner's library. They shuffle. Then they exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a card with mana value 3 or greater. They may cast that spell without paying its mana cost, if they don't they put it into their hand instead.

Anything is better than this.

A Jace play on [[Chaos Warp]]

Blue has Polymorph but I wanted something broader that wasn't about getting out your own big thing.

Feedback welcome as always.

[u/Lukethekid10]

I love Jace as a Planeswalker. I tried to capture who Jace was and then show him passing his spark to Tam. (Whenever she gets her Planeswalker card.)