Comments on: MTG Origins: Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy & Jace, Telepath Unbound

By: Matt Doyle

Matt Doyle — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:39:17 +0000

Man doesn’t your “high quality” review looks really dumb, Like you have no idea how magic works dumb. Quiet Speculation or just not even understanding speculation

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:08:18 +0000

Don’t you feel like a moron now?
As jace creeps up to 80.00 dollars… and is in every blue deck… LOL.

Dont quit your day job.. oh wait.

By: TROLL

TROLL — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:56:35 +0000

Ya a 2 mana planeswalker that flips next turn in every format if you play it right, is a looter, and gives flashback for its minus….ya totally unplayable. people can be so bad at evaluating cards. I cant wait to see how wrong people are about BFZ

By: Hahahahaha

Hahahahaha — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:45:07 +0000

Jace is now the only planeswalker seeing common use and is currently at a median price of $44 on TCGplayer. Looks like you fucked up.

By: Ding DOng

Ding DOng — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 04:20:14 +0000

This article is utterly embarrassing now that you look back. Everything you said is wrong. What little and terrible foresight you have. Sure you should be doing this?

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:03:53 +0000

Strong opinions make good internet articles, but they also have the propensity to be wrong. It does not help that this, like may QS articles, is almost nothing more than a link with a small amount of commentary describing it.

Both of these Walkers are very difficult to handle and it is far to early to call them bad. Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: Tibalt was bad for reasons that went beyond raw power level. The only thing he could do out of the gate was give you a bad looting effect. If you wanted to do that at 2 mana, there were two cards IN THE SAME BLOCK that did the job better – Faithless Looting and Desperate Ravings. Add to that the fact that his ability could randomly screw you over and you end up with a card that has no applications.

Jace and Chandra are not Tibalt. Jace is nominally a Merfolk Looter. That’s not a powerhouse, but it is a fine card. Then, in the mid-game, Jace becomes a slower Snapcaster Mage. Now, I don’t know that the love child of Tiago and a Merman is really very powerful, but it is unique and not necessarily bad. If Merfolk Looter flat out DREW you a card every third time you used it, would it be played? That’s not a bad comparison to what Jace does.

Chandra, similarly, is designed to be plugged into the sort of “machine gun” UR decks we saw in the past with cards like Gelectrode. They were never tournament staples, but given the right new printings, they could be. We have lots of powerful tools for a deck like this in Modern at the moment, and a few Lava Dart-esque cards might put it into contention.

Bottom line- don’t rush to judgment because these cards are not named “The Mindsculptor.” Let’s see what they can do.

By: Kelly Reid

Kelly Reid — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:32:08 +0000

In reply to David Schumann. I understand. I am working under the assumption that it will be relatively easy to achieve his threshold, and planning on being able to use him on the subsequent turn.

By: Kelly Reid

Kelly Reid — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:31:30 +0000

In reply to Machius. Yep, another example of a disappointing 2 mana 'walker for sure. I really wanted him to be good. But he just wasn't.

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:56:47 +0000

It’s important to note that Jace’s ability doesn’t have to be activated 5 times…it needs to be activated once, you just have to have 4 other cards in your graveyard when you activate it…which isn’t that hard in blue decks. His biggest downside is that his only really good ability is the -3…though the +1 isn’t bad if you can get him on an open field (or with only 1 creature…say a Delver of Secrets)

By: Machius

Machius — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:29:26 +0000

I’m not sure why you were still wondering about 2 cost planeswalkers. We’ve had a real one for ages and based on Tibalt the answer is – be unplayable.