Comes down T3 with 3 loyalty or T4 with 5 loyalty.
+1 prevents 3 damage, fairly straightforward. Similar abilities have proven useful, i.e. Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer.
-2 is mostly there for the card draw, with some mill and a graveyard clause being very minor upsides.
-X is where the power resides, in my opinion. Playing Jace T4 and spending all his loyalty on this means milling 15 cards from the opponent, with each +1 adding 3 to the possible future mill amount. 15 cards is no joke but not quite enough to guarantee a kill, but if you stall for 2 turns you can reach 21 cards, more than half a limited deck, which is closer to representing a fatal amount of milling.
Obviously, this ability has the same caveats as Jace, Memory Adept, in that milling out an opponent with an Eldrazi titan will be impossible, and if they are a graveyard synergy deck you will probably be doing them a favor unless you can actually mill their entire deck.
I think this card is reminiscent of previous good planeswalkers, and adds some important flexibility, enough to warrant discussion. Any planeswalker that can be played on T3 and can eventually kill a player is nothing to scoff at. what are your thoughts?
In a very graveyard-centric cube, I could see this card being played just to mill yourself for 15. Milling out your opponent with this is very difficult outside of control mirrors, as even a 21-card mill effect only ends the game on the opponent's 13th/14th turn.
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An interesting hybrid between Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer, Jace, Architect of Thought and Jace, Memory Adept.
Comes down T3 with 3 loyalty or T4 with 5 loyalty.
+1 prevents 3 damage, fairly straightforward. Similar abilities have proven useful, i.e. Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer.
-2 is mostly there for the card draw, with some mill and a graveyard clause being very minor upsides.
-X is where the power resides, in my opinion. Playing Jace T4 and spending all his loyalty on this means milling 15 cards from the opponent, with each +1 adding 3 to the possible future mill amount. 15 cards is no joke but not quite enough to guarantee a kill, but if you stall for 2 turns you can reach 21 cards, more than half a limited deck, which is closer to representing a fatal amount of milling.
Obviously, this ability has the same caveats as Jace, Memory Adept, in that milling out an opponent with an Eldrazi titan will be impossible, and if they are a graveyard synergy deck you will probably be doing them a favor unless you can actually mill their entire deck.
I think this card is reminiscent of previous good planeswalkers, and adds some important flexibility, enough to warrant discussion. Any planeswalker that can be played on T3 and can eventually kill a player is nothing to scoff at. what are your thoughts?