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From the Vault: Jace (w/ L.A. Jace/Oaken Booties and Cheatyjace)
It is said there were once fifteen Magic: The Gathering cards so sneaky, so uppity, they were bought or sold by players on the day of competition. In the years that have passed, the game has evolved and these cards are still there, being traded. Master these savage cards from ages past and present and make your opponent move cards from their library into their graveyard, as if they were burying books in a graveyard.
So far, we have revealed thirteen out of the fifteen cards in From the Vault: Jace. In this article, we reveal the last two and then give you the rest of the details on the set!
L.A. Jace / Oaken Booties
Oh, my, god. Look at her toughness.
It is so big. She looks like,
one of those Planeswalker’s girlfriends.
But, you know, who understands Planeswalkers?
They only cast her because she looks like a total prostitute, ‘kay?
I mean, her toughness, is just so…. big.
–Dryad Sophisticate
Cheatyjace
This is another rare case of a card that migrated from Un-sets to tournament legal ones, but that isn’t the only special thing about Cheatyjace. If you look closely, it actually has two pieces of artwork. This may mean it cost twice as much to create as other cards, but we think it was worth it.
Boxed Set Details
Here is a list of other stuff:
Contents
- 15 Premium cards, with all new art
- An exclusive spinup loyalty counter
- A collector’s guide
- Each card has been printed using a non-foil process unique to the “From the Vault: Jace” series.
- The 15 cards are all printed in the current card frame, because we lost the old ones.
- Several of the cards have new artwork commissioned from artists including Google Image Search, Microsoft Clip-art, and Donatello.
- From the Vault: Jace will be available world-wide in English only, and will have an extremely limited print run.
- All cards are black-bordered and tournament legal. This means that these cards are legal for use in any tournaments where the original printings are still legal.
Now that you’ve experienced Jace Week, god knows how you’re going to stand living in any regular week again.
Product Concept and Development Team: Jace Beleren
Release Date: June 1st 2010
MSRP: $34.99 -
The Jace Cycle
Today, we have a cycle of cards that all show up in the From The Vault: Jace set. You may wonder why we used up a full third of a 15-card set on a cycle, but we have good reason. Here at GoodGamery R&D, there is a saying that nothing is as hard as designing a well-balanced cycle of cards. It’s true – it is extremely difficult to create a cycle that showcases the unique interactions, thoughts, skills, and desires of each color. This cycle does all of these things, and more.
Purejace
Thoughtjace
Deathjace
Chaosjace
Lifejace
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Echo Jacer & Treetop Jacers
Morph is a mechanic that turns any card into a Grey Ogre. When we designed it, we didn’t think we would ever make a card like this one. This version features new artwork with more Jaces than ever before featured on a single card (at least until Jaceful Antelope was printed).
“If a card is face down, that means it’s a 2/2 creature. That means you can attack with your library – this is how I win games of Magic: The Gathering.” – Mark Diehr
Our second card today touches on a theme that hasn’t been done before – Auras that enchant Planeswalkers. You can use Treetop Jacers to make old Planeswalkers new again, or to play tricks on the native non-flying tribes of some backwater plane that hasn’t invented flying birds yet.
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Pocket Jaces
“Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker’s the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There’s only one way to make a fortune, and that’s to down the fellow who’s up against you.” – W. Somerset Maugham
I hope that quote got you in the mood for poker, because we know for a fact that the entire Magic: the Gathering community secretly wishes it were a Poker community. We gave this powerful card to Poker legend Phil Hellmuth to evaluate:
“I actually been bringing Pocket Jaces to big tournaments for years – It’s the strongest hand in the field, and at least 15% better than Pocket Aces. It’s how I revolutionized Texas hold ’em. I’m not surprised you are reprinting it for this Magic game.” – Phil Hellmuth
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Kormus Belleren & Jaceful Antelope
Magic: The Gathering has a long history of printing color hosers. These are cards like the famous Hydroblast and Flash Flood that literally hose down red opponents with water. With Kormus Belleren, you can turn your opponent’s powerful Planeswalkers into weak, mewling cadets.
“I don’t have the time or energy to keep up with new cards, so Kormus Belleren is perfect for me – it hoses new cards that I’m afraid of. Since it’s also an artifact, I can put it in all of my decks.” – MTGO User
Next, here’s a card that hoses Planeswalkers while comboing with Kormus Belleren. First, you play Jaceful Antelope, and then you cast Kormus Belleren. Now their Planeswalkers are all creatures, but they can’t block Jaceful Antelope – aha! In the final stage of this combo, attack with Jaceful Antelope for 20 turns.
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Announcing: Jace Week
It’s Jace Week here at Good Gamery. In celebration of the new collector’s set, titled “From the Vault: Jace”, we will be giving you sneak previews of cards every day.
Sometimes we will show you these new Jace cards one at a time, and sometimes it will be two at a time. Today we will start with two of our favorites from Good Gamery R&D.
About Jace
About Jace has showed that even one copy of a sufficiently powerful loyalty-increasing card can warp formats when combined with powerful card-drawing Planeswalkers. Multicolored joke decks were among the best decks in Standard and Extended for a long time. One of the reasons they were so strong is that if an aggressive creature deck got ahead of them, all they had to do to catch up was find their single About Jace with one of their myriad card filtering effects. This meant that any creature deck had a massively uphill battle to fight against this tireless champion of an instant, and this had an oppressive effect on the format. Good players simply played joke decks rather than expose themselves to getting About Jaced out of games.
Battlejace Angel
Battlejace Angel is a tribal creature card designed with hammer of “Tribal Matters” striking against the anvil of “Creatures”. It’s a big creature, and the best creature, which hardly seems fair to me. We like the card anyhow, because we like sending big Wizards into the red zone. (This card is a Wizard.)
Battlejace Angel has been printed for the first time as a Wizard Angel. Here it is with new art, which is also a new thing we added to this card. It also features new collector’s numbers and a never-before-seen copyright date.
We’ll tell you more about this exciting new collection at the end of Jace Week, but until then, enjoy the sneak previews every day this week, only at Good Gamery!
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Dominion Comix #16
Crime doesn’t pay.
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Good, I didn’t want that copper anyhow. They only accept Rupees at the corner store.
Here is the card in question:
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Dominion Comix #15
Ghost Ship is a card that makes your opponents re-live their most terrible hands, over and over again.
There are some ways to work around it, though.
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Here are the cards in question:
