Chandra: Jace, the crystal zombies are attacking!
Jace:...think, think, think...
Chandra: Jace, the crystal zombies are killing people!
Jace: THINK, THINK, THINK...
Chandra: Ugh, forget it! You keep thinking while the rest of us fight the zombies and, you know, actually do something! I just hope Bolas doesn't kill us all and harvest our sparks before you get done thinking and come up with a plan.
Later...
Jace:...think, think, think - aw, **** it, I've got nothing. We're just going to win somehow.
Later still, the remains of Bolas lay crumpled on the ground, the Blackblade hissing in Gideon's hands...
Gideon: Finally, we won! But, er, how did we win?
Jace: *shrugs* We just won.
Gideon: Yes, but how did we-?
Jace: *shrugs* We just won.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Why does Jace's -8 have the same ability as his static?
So that if someone removes Jace in response to the activation you still win.
Yeah otherwise his -8 would kill you if he was at 8 loyalty. So really he'd have to be at 9 loyalty to survive the ultimate without that rider. I do agree it's jarringly redundant, though. The card has like 7 lines, most of which do nothing, and the same text is repeated twice. Maybe gameplay is good but this looks like poor design to me.
I dub this "Just Keep Swimming" Jace. He does nothing but draw and kill. How will that defeat Bolas? Just keep swimming...
I don't know why people think its the same text. There is actually the small possibility you would have actually whiffed on his ultimate if it was just "draw seven" because you actually had seven cards in your library meaning you couldn't win the game from just his ultimate. But because it has that extra bit of text where it checks if your library is empty, it will still trigger a win, but not because you tried to draw cards when you had no cards in your library.
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The ult is draw seven cards and if none are in you
Jace: Let me think on it. Hmm, think, think, think...
Chandra: Um, Jace?
Chandra: Jace, they're here!
Jace:...think, think, think...
Chandra: Jace, the crystal zombies are attacking!
Jace:...think, think, think...
Chandra: Jace, the crystal zombies are killing people!
Jace: THINK, THINK, THINK...
Chandra: Ugh, forget it! You keep thinking while the rest of us fight the zombies and, you know, actually do something! I just hope Bolas doesn't kill us all and harvest our sparks before you get done thinking and come up with a plan.
Later...
Jace:...think, think, think - aw, **** it, I've got nothing. We're just going to win somehow.
Later still, the remains of Bolas lay crumpled on the ground, the Blackblade hissing in Gideon's hands...
Gideon: Finally, we won! But, er, how did we win?
Jace: *shrugs* We just won.
Gideon: Yes, but how did we-?
Jace: *shrugs* We just won.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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So that if someone removes Jace in response to the activation you still win.
Yeah otherwise his -8 would kill you if he was at 8 loyalty. So really he'd have to be at 9 loyalty to survive the ultimate without that rider. I do agree it's jarringly redundant, though. The card has like 7 lines, most of which do nothing, and the same text is repeated twice. Maybe gameplay is good but this looks like poor design to me.
I dub this "Just Keep Swimming" Jace. He does nothing but draw and kill. How will that defeat Bolas? Just keep swimming...