That’s worth noting. For some reason I thought Scars was before Zendikar. What likely triggered that is Wizards listing the sets in alphabetical order in the press release and me thinking Zendikar was last. Good catch.

Ugh, really? I’m not sure how I missed that announcement – that seems fairly relevant. Although, like most people. I mostly just notice someone on twitter saying “Hey, the B&R update announcement is this week” and I go “Is it Octember already?” That’s fairly important to know. Your analysis seems correct – they basically have to announce the Jace unban well in advance of its unveiling. MM2015 is pretty much the only place they could reprint it, although there is no real impetus to reprint it other than “its price will go nuts”. I think either way, you’ll have to buy now to take advantage of that bet and the price will likely go right back down (although it will stay above where it is now) if and when new supply hits.

My readers appreciate the correction.

They could do that now. They banned it because they didn’t want Zoo decks and hierarch decks precluded but the metagame is doing a fine job of that now. What it would do is attenuate delver a bit. There are so many phyrexian 1-drops that people already can play a ton of turn-1 spells.

I think it is funny that I expected Jace to be the controversial unban suggestion and it wasn’t.