Jace Beleren is a planeswalker that has historically only been played in Time Walk type decks in modern. Recently this card has seen some success in UW(x) variants that aren't looking to time walk. The curve of Jace Beleren into nahiri, harbinger into Gideon Jura seems rather decent. He also has a reasonable amount of loyalty. Since abrupt Decay has been seeing a lot less play, now may be Jace's time to shine.
he has always been a good card and you can run away with the game if left unchecked. I think he may be seeing more play because the format has slowed down a little compared to previous years. That being said though I cant think of to many instances where you would run "baby jace" over origins jace.
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The card is sleeper good and pretty underrated. Or, if nothing else, he's underplayed. Falling in line with his personality, he's pretty good at flying under the radar. I can't imagine him ever seeing format-wide play though.
I see him pop up from time to time in deck lists and brews (even GerryT brewed with 1 copy of him in Jeskai Harbinger some month(s) back). I've loved the card since I first got my hands on one way back in Standard, but I never had the balls to place him in my modern decks. Have always wanted to. Just never pulled the trigger.
He has some competition, doesn't affect the board very much when he lands (his effect isn't inconsequential, but it does take time), and he costs 3 mana (not BAD, but can be punishing). His competition being: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Jace, Architect of Thought, Ancestral Vision, etc. etc. Architect of Thought offers more burst of cards in a shorter amount of time, meanwhile having a decent +1 utility and game-ending ultimate. The +1 was slightly more relevant vs. Deceiver Exarch back in Twin days. Vryn's Prodigy comes down a turn earlier and has a mechanic that lets him affect the board (pseudo-flashback). The upside to Beleren is that he offers a consistent stream of cards without drawing too much attention to himself. Having a +2 and a -1 ability is actually something that most (played) planeswalkers don't have anymore.
I know all of those cards aren't necessarily the same thing, and it's not like you can't run them side-by-side. I'm just saying that sometimes when it comes down to the final 60th mainboard card or 75th card in your build...it's pretty easy to end up leaving out a card like Jace Beleren.
Reprints the one card that people point to when saying that art objectifies women.
Well done Wizards.
Liliana does not objectify women in any way at all. We have gotten to a point in our society that every single picture of a women must be objectifying a women in some negative way......blah blah blah.. That is not the case. (((Sarcasm)))Picture of a girl drinking a milk shake, must be sex related and putting women down, picture of girl sitting on a beach, picture of a girl driving a car, picture of a girl on the moon at a new space station.)))
You have a picture of an attractive strong power women who girls dress up as for anime conventions. What more do you want? The picture is fine, happy to see a reprint. Sick of of seeing people claim that everything in existence must be putting women down. Then all I have to do is replace the word "women" with anything else to get the same mentality; fish, cats, arabs, blacks, jews, men, environment, whites, chinese, old people, etc. It doesn't matter what word I put in. Stop sucking life out of everything man. That artwork of her is awesome. Stop putting stuff down man. Just stop. If the picture was really as negative as you claim she would totally nude, in a kitchen, making sandwiches and giving blow jobs. Her abilities would be horrible as well. +1 do nothing -2 do nothing -6 do nothing. Instead liliana of the veil is an amazing planeswalker comparable to jace, the mind sculpter with great art to appreciate.
My suggestion listen to some comedy radio for a while, pandora is free, youtube is free there is something out there for you. ***** go make fun of somebody. The whole world is so serious and campaigning for some cause, or someones rights, everything is a hate crime, racist, sexist. blah blah blah.
"O no mcdonalds must be slandering a hate crime against skinny people every time they make a big mac." hahaha jeeze You're just someone perpetuating another groups negative perspective that they've made you believe is correct. Look at the picture for a hour and tell me what's wrong with it? I don't see anything.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
So maybe this is just my old timer speaking... Baby Jace as he was known, was actually played ALOT in early modern. He was in twin even for the longest, back when twin wasnt as defined as it got, and ran 4 kikis main. He was in control and UWR and URW was mostly walkers back then.
Jace has always been fine, but he got out classed by other walkers as the lists got more refined, but be still had a role.
Used to play the card in my first Faeries lists after the BB unban. Was always ok but never good. He still has a spot in sideboards I think for slower more grindy matches if that is the kind of meta you expect. As of now I don't think he can reliably be MB material.
So maybe this is just my old timer speaking... Baby Jace as he was known, was actually played ALOT in early modern. He was in twin even for the longest, back when twin wasnt as defined as it got, and ran 4 kikis main. He was in control and UWR and URW was mostly walkers back then.
Jace has always been fine, but he got out classed by other walkers as the lists got more refined, but be still had a role.
That's pretty cool. I did not play modern much in the very early days. Sometime around GP Charlotte (the big one that lead to the huge surge in legacy dual lands' prices), but that's about 1-1.5ish years after.
Old-school Modern was kinda interesting; I think a lot of players tested with the Mirrodin Swords a lot, didn't they? And Green Sun's Zenith wasn't quite banned yet.
Reprints the one card that people point to when saying that art objectifies women.
Well done Wizards.
Liliana does not objectify women in any way at all. We have gotten to a point in our society that every single picture of a women must be objectifying a women in some negative way......blah blah blah.. That is not the case. (((Sarcasm)))Picture of a girl drinking a milk shake, must be sex related and putting women down, picture of girl sitting on a beach, picture of a girl driving a car, picture of a girl on the moon at a new space station.)))
You have a picture of an attractive strong power women who girls dress up as for anime conventions. What more do you want? The picture is fine, happy to see a reprint. Sick of of seeing people claim that everything in existence must be putting women down. Then all I have to do is replace the word "women" with anything else to get the same mentality; fish, cats, arabs, blacks, jews, men, environment, whites, chinese, old people, etc. It doesn't matter what word I put in. Stop sucking life out of everything man. That artwork of her is awesome. Stop putting stuff down man. Just stop. If the picture was really as negative as you claim she would totally nude, in a kitchen, making sandwiches and giving blow jobs. Her abilities would be horrible as well. +1 do nothing -2 do nothing -6 do nothing. Instead liliana of the veil is an amazing planeswalker comparable to jace, the mind sculpter with great art to appreciate.
My suggestion listen to some comedy radio for a while, pandora is free, youtube is free there is something out there for you. ***** go make fun of somebody. The whole world is so serious and campaigning for some cause, or someones rights, everything is a hate crime, racist, sexist. blah blah blah.
"O no mcdonalds must be slandering a hate crime against skinny people every time they make a big mac." hahaha jeeze You're just someone perpetuating another groups negative perspective that they've made you believe is correct. Look at the picture for a hour and tell me what's wrong with it? I don't see anything.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
Yeah. Lists werent as refined is the real thing. Twin even used time warp and top ended at a frost titan or inferno titan for a while. Zoo was the "best deck" and got banned, even though every affinity card still existed back then. It takes a while for the hive mind to refine stuff, like with amulet, or dredge is happening now. Even the guys who are doing well with dredge back at ssg early this month said that 70% of the deck should be changed.
Brining it back to jace. He does one thing really well, which is draw cards. He acts in a lot of ways, blue's version of Phyrexian arena, a card youd use over dark confidant if you were going to grind really long term, like 12 turns. If you arent running black and you are going to grind, thats when baby jace is good.
Yeah. Lists werent as refined is the real thing. Twin even used time warp and top ended at a frost titan or inferno titan for a while. Zoo was the "best deck" and got banned, even though every affinity card still existed back then. It takes a while for the hive mind to refine stuff, like with amulet, or dredge is happening now. Even the guys who are doing well with dredge back at ssg early this month said that 70% of the deck should be changed.
Brining it back to jace. He does one thing really well, which is draw cards. He acts in a lot of ways, blue's version of Phyrexian arena, a card youd use over dark confidant if you were going to grind really long term, like 12 turns. If you arent running black and you are going to grind, thats when baby jace is good.
Come on Lantern, you exactly know, why Nacatl was banned back than ^^
I mean, both Punishing Fire and GSZ was probably a big part of it, why it got banned, but than again, they admitted it, that it was a mistake in the end ^^
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I think only Jace, Vryn's Prodigy is better than Baby Jace. And Baby Jace will always have a place in certain decks like Mill and Timewalk.
Meh I hate when people use the word "better" since it's not true in most cases. JVP and Beleren are completely different cards that fit different strats.
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I'd consider Jace Beleren for Cruel Control. I appreciate that it's a Tier 3 deck on a good day, but in grindy metas Jace puts in work. The problem for me is that if I'm playing black and blue then Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver competes for the 3 drop slot, and Ashiok impacts the board more than Jace.
I'd consider Jace Beleren for Cruel Control. I appreciate that it's a Tier 3 deck on a good day, but in grindy metas Jace puts in work. The problem for me is that if I'm playing black and blue then Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver competes for the 3 drop slot, and Ashiok impacts the board more than Jace.
Ashiok doesn't impact the board. I like the card but it doesn't actually impact the board. The only way it can interact at all with the battlefield is if your opponent happens to have creatures on top of his library.
To clarify Ashiok is capable of impacting the board, and against (most) decks without creature cards to steal, it is a respectable, if somewhat slow, win condition. Jace, whilst grindy, is incapable of impacting the board at all.
To clarify Ashiok is capable of impacting the board, and against (most) decks without creature cards to steal, it is a respectable, if somewhat slow, win condition. Jace, whilst grindy, is incapable of impacting the board at all.
Sure, Jace doesn't impact the board at all, but that's not the point. He gives you card advantage. Both Ashiok and Jace Beleren are fringe modern playables and neither of them are examples of cards that do much to affect the board.
Honestly, it's Beleren's lack of doing anything but drawing cards that serves as both his greatest strength and greatest flaw.
He's real good about being a Blue Phyrexian Arena, and unlike PA which whittles your life down Beleren just complicates decisionmaking for the opponent by offering a card that can be interacted with through damage sources (the hidden mode of all planeswalkers, being able to take a hit and save you some life in the process), but that's all he does. Relying on a Planeswalker to be some kind of damage shield is poor Magic, because it relies on the opponent doing something they're under no obligation to do (unless it's Gideon), they're going to tank a hit based on how much of a threat they are and the opponent's threat evaluation process isn't guaranteed to line up with yours. This is arguably the root of why Planeswalker abilities that impact the board are so important, they shift the agency back to the controller's hand.
So if you're in the market for drawing cards repeatedly, Beleren is really up there, but between his low cost and being the original Blue Planeswalker, you don't get anything else out of him. JVP sorta almost gets the ideal mix of low cost and crossup of card draw (albeit in the form of looting) with boardstate influencing abilities but it splits it across two mutually exclusive sides, one of which is a very fragile creature. Those caveats kinda add up if you're not abusing him to hell and back in a Thoughtscour deck.
he has always been a good card and you can run away with the game if left unchecked. I think he may be seeing more play because the format has slowed down a little compared to previous years. That being said though I cant think of to many instances where you would run "baby jace" over origins jace.
I think the format has gotten slower. I havent been able to turn 1-2 anyone recently like i was able to with amulet bloom or grisselbrand. Also decks cant end as consistently like pod or twin could. Infect is about the only deck i can think of right now that can end on 2. Plus just the fact that a control deck like nahiri is able to sustain right now is an indication the format has slowed. Im not saying fast decks dont exist but they are not as powerful or consistent as previous.
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I think the format has gotten slower. I havent been able to turn 1-2 anyone recently like i was able to with amulet bloom or grisselbrand. Also decks cant end as consistently like pod or twin could. Infect is about the only deck i can think of right now that can end on 2. Plus just the fact that a control deck like nahiri is able to sustain right now is an indication the format has slowed. Im not saying fast decks dont exist but they are not as powerful or consistent as previous.
Banning Twin led to an increase in hyper aggro decks and combo decks, which all sum up to create a much faster format. Before, Splinter Twin kept these decks in check either through removals or through the "oops I guess I win" on turn 4 strategy. To keep splinter twin decks in check were the midrange decks like Abzan, Jund, and Jeskai/ Grixis. The reason why Abzan went out of favor is because it matches much more poorly against faster decks compared to Jund, as it lacks efficient early removal and painless fastland (well used to).
Nahiri control is not well positioned right. It's a very popular deck, hence the Tier 1 rank, but it doesn't have a substantial winning percentage and even Jeskai players agree it will fall down to Tier 2 soon. The deck is too reactive in a meta that has too many strong proactive strategies. The deck does well against Midrange but Midrange isn't doing so well right now.
I think the format has gotten slower. I havent been able to turn 1-2 anyone recently like i was able to with amulet bloom or grisselbrand. Also decks cant end as consistently like pod or twin could. Infect is about the only deck i can think of right now that can end on 2. Plus just the fact that a control deck like nahiri is able to sustain right now is an indication the format has slowed. Im not saying fast decks dont exist but they are not as powerful or consistent as previous.
Banning Twin led to an increase in hyper aggro decks and combo decks, which all sum up to create a much faster format. Before, Splinter Twin kept these decks in check either through removals or through the "oops I guess I win" on turn 4 strategy. To keep splinter twin decks in check were the midrange decks like Abzan, Jund, and Jeskai/ Grixis. The reason why Abzan went out of favor is because it matches much more poorly against faster decks compared to Jund, as it lacks efficient early removal and painless fastland (well used to).
Nahiri control is not well positioned right. It's a very popular deck, hence the Tier 1 rank, but it doesn't have a substantial winning percentage and even Jeskai players agree it will fall down to Tier 2 soon. The deck is too reactive in a meta that has too many strong proactive strategies. The deck does well against Midrange but Midrange isn't doing so well right now.
Also, Eldrazi aggro and Dredge are a thing.
Jeskai was supposed to "drop to tier 2" months ago but it never did because it's stronger than people believe it is. You just have to tool it differently.
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He is MVP in a UR Owling Mine deck I play sometimes. He does exactly what you want him to do, draw more cards for you and your opponent while ticking up to a to a game-winning ultimate. He is easily protected by mass-bounce effects.
So yeah he is still a great card but right now only in fringe decks it would seem.
I think the format has gotten slower. I havent been able to turn 1-2 anyone recently like i was able to with amulet bloom or grisselbrand. Also decks cant end as consistently like pod or twin could. Infect is about the only deck i can think of right now that can end on 2. Plus just the fact that a control deck like nahiri is able to sustain right now is an indication the format has slowed. Im not saying fast decks dont exist but they are not as powerful or consistent as previous.
Banning Twin led to an increase in hyper aggro decks and combo decks, which all sum up to create a much faster format. Before, Splinter Twin kept these decks in check either through removals or through the "oops I guess I win" on turn 4 strategy. To keep splinter twin decks in check were the midrange decks like Abzan, Jund, and Jeskai/ Grixis. The reason why Abzan went out of favor is because it matches much more poorly against faster decks compared to Jund, as it lacks efficient early removal and painless fastland (well used to).
Nahiri control is not well positioned right. It's a very popular deck, hence the Tier 1 rank, but it doesn't have a substantial winning percentage and even Jeskai players agree it will fall down to Tier 2 soon. The deck is too reactive in a meta that has too many strong proactive strategies. The deck does well against Midrange but Midrange isn't doing so well right now.
Also, Eldrazi aggro and Dredge are a thing.
Jeskai was supposed to "drop to tier 2" months ago but it never did because it's stronger than people believe it is. You just have to tool it differently.
Differently how? Most of the deck is set in stone. It's having even more trouble now that Dredge and Eldrazi Aggro are so popular and these are fairly unfavorable match-ups. When I'm playing Nahiri Control I feel good against Abzan/ Jund, Infect, Affinity, etc. But too much of Modern does not get set back by removal spells. Not great against combo or any aggro deck with resiliency or value (e.g Abzan Company). Even the favored match-ups feel like a struggle because the deck doesn't always have access to proactive win-cons. Nahiri helps but if you don't draw her, you're giving your opponent many turns to stabilize and counterspells in Modern don't exactly get better as the games progress.
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Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
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I see him pop up from time to time in deck lists and brews (even GerryT brewed with 1 copy of him in Jeskai Harbinger some month(s) back). I've loved the card since I first got my hands on one way back in Standard, but I never had the balls to place him in my modern decks. Have always wanted to. Just never pulled the trigger.
He has some competition, doesn't affect the board very much when he lands (his effect isn't inconsequential, but it does take time), and he costs 3 mana (not BAD, but can be punishing). His competition being: Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Jace, Architect of Thought, Ancestral Vision, etc. etc. Architect of Thought offers more burst of cards in a shorter amount of time, meanwhile having a decent +1 utility and game-ending ultimate. The +1 was slightly more relevant vs. Deceiver Exarch back in Twin days. Vryn's Prodigy comes down a turn earlier and has a mechanic that lets him affect the board (pseudo-flashback). The upside to Beleren is that he offers a consistent stream of cards without drawing too much attention to himself. Having a +2 and a -1 ability is actually something that most (played) planeswalkers don't have anymore.
I know all of those cards aren't necessarily the same thing, and it's not like you can't run them side-by-side. I'm just saying that sometimes when it comes down to the final 60th mainboard card or 75th card in your build...it's pretty easy to end up leaving out a card like Jace Beleren.
Jace has always been fine, but he got out classed by other walkers as the lists got more refined, but be still had a role.
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That's pretty cool. I did not play modern much in the very early days. Sometime around GP Charlotte (the big one that lead to the huge surge in legacy dual lands' prices), but that's about 1-1.5ish years after.
Old-school Modern was kinda interesting; I think a lot of players tested with the Mirrodin Swords a lot, didn't they? And Green Sun's Zenith wasn't quite banned yet.
Brining it back to jace. He does one thing really well, which is draw cards. He acts in a lot of ways, blue's version of Phyrexian arena, a card youd use over dark confidant if you were going to grind really long term, like 12 turns. If you arent running black and you are going to grind, thats when baby jace is good.
He really hasn't since Beleren is the OG. Jace's Vryn's Prodigy = Origins Jace.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
Come on Lantern, you exactly know, why Nacatl was banned back than ^^
I mean, both Punishing Fire and GSZ was probably a big part of it, why it got banned, but than again, they admitted it, that it was a mistake in the end ^^
Greetings,
Kathal
PS: And Zoo with Punishing Fire and GSZ was just bonkers, but you probably already know this ^^
Modern/Legacy
either funpolice (Delver, Deathcloud, UW Control) or the fun decks (especially those ft. Griselbrand)
Meh I hate when people use the word "better" since it's not true in most cases. JVP and Beleren are completely different cards that fit different strats.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
the better jace to run is jace, architect of thought, if you want a jace that generates a win condition.
other wise jace beleren is just a card draw option.
each jace has is place.
"know your jaces"
Ashiok doesn't impact the board. I like the card but it doesn't actually impact the board. The only way it can interact at all with the battlefield is if your opponent happens to have creatures on top of his library.
Sure, Jace doesn't impact the board at all, but that's not the point. He gives you card advantage. Both Ashiok and Jace Beleren are fringe modern playables and neither of them are examples of cards that do much to affect the board.
He's real good about being a Blue Phyrexian Arena, and unlike PA which whittles your life down Beleren just complicates decisionmaking for the opponent by offering a card that can be interacted with through damage sources (the hidden mode of all planeswalkers, being able to take a hit and save you some life in the process), but that's all he does. Relying on a Planeswalker to be some kind of damage shield is poor Magic, because it relies on the opponent doing something they're under no obligation to do (unless it's Gideon), they're going to tank a hit based on how much of a threat they are and the opponent's threat evaluation process isn't guaranteed to line up with yours. This is arguably the root of why Planeswalker abilities that impact the board are so important, they shift the agency back to the controller's hand.
So if you're in the market for drawing cards repeatedly, Beleren is really up there, but between his low cost and being the original Blue Planeswalker, you don't get anything else out of him. JVP sorta almost gets the ideal mix of low cost and crossup of card draw (albeit in the form of looting) with boardstate influencing abilities but it splits it across two mutually exclusive sides, one of which is a very fragile creature. Those caveats kinda add up if you're not abusing him to hell and back in a Thoughtscour deck.
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My Decks that have been BANNED
DRS Jund | Kiki-Pod | Bloom Titan | Splinter Twin | KCI
Banning Twin led to an increase in hyper aggro decks and combo decks, which all sum up to create a much faster format. Before, Splinter Twin kept these decks in check either through removals or through the "oops I guess I win" on turn 4 strategy. To keep splinter twin decks in check were the midrange decks like Abzan, Jund, and Jeskai/ Grixis. The reason why Abzan went out of favor is because it matches much more poorly against faster decks compared to Jund, as it lacks efficient early removal and painless fastland (well used to).
Nahiri control is not well positioned right. It's a very popular deck, hence the Tier 1 rank, but it doesn't have a substantial winning percentage and even Jeskai players agree it will fall down to Tier 2 soon. The deck is too reactive in a meta that has too many strong proactive strategies. The deck does well against Midrange but Midrange isn't doing so well right now.
Also, Eldrazi aggro and Dredge are a thing.
Jeskai was supposed to "drop to tier 2" months ago but it never did because it's stronger than people believe it is. You just have to tool it differently.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
So yeah he is still a great card but right now only in fringe decks it would seem.
Differently how? Most of the deck is set in stone. It's having even more trouble now that Dredge and Eldrazi Aggro are so popular and these are fairly unfavorable match-ups. When I'm playing Nahiri Control I feel good against Abzan/ Jund, Infect, Affinity, etc. But too much of Modern does not get set back by removal spells. Not great against combo or any aggro deck with resiliency or value (e.g Abzan Company). Even the favored match-ups feel like a struggle because the deck doesn't always have access to proactive win-cons. Nahiri helps but if you don't draw her, you're giving your opponent many turns to stabilize and counterspells in Modern don't exactly get better as the games progress.