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Your Jace Is Not Safe
The sad reality of Christmas is that you don’t always get everything you want. This year, an even sadder reality for some of you is that your friends got what they wanted (From the Vault: Jace) and your decks have no answer for the powerful cards they added to theirs. Well, we at Good Gamery have designed the perfect card for you.
This should put you on equal footing with those spoiled jerks. When you’re at their houses playing magic (because obviously you can’t play Magic at your house) bust this card out and they won’t know what hit them!
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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 -
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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Jaceless Butcher
Jaceless Butcher is a beloved card for enabling the “triple butcher” trick, which is where you live in a town with 3 butchers, but can’t find a baker or a candlestick maker within walking distance. That’s why we decided to include this card in From the Vault: Jace.
And now a word from world-famous magical card slinger, Jarvis Yu:
“When Good Gamery gave me this card to preview, I was honored, as is the tradition in my culture.” – Jarvis Yu
We also like this card because it tells a story. It’s the story of a hideous monster with misshapen arms and no face who thinks a powerful wizard is his friend, when the wizard is not.
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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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Experts Declare “Halo Hunter” Photo a Hoax
Experts have debunked the recent photo of Halo Hunter as a fake. However, some still believe it to be real. You be the judge:
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GG News: Elder Dragon Unable to Stop Man on Horse
Noted Elder Dragon Legend Vaevictis Asmadi is accustomed to being the big bad ruler of the battlefield.
But with the release of Master’s Edition III on Magic Online, he has been facing down some foes unlike any he’s seen before. Vaevictis was reached in his volcanic lair to describe one such encounter.“When I first saw it I thought, ‘no big deal’ – just looked like your garden variety Tarpan or whatever. I figured I would just fly down there, break every bone in its body, roast it in my polychromatic flame, and devour its earthly form and ethereal soul,” he said.
But as what we know now as Shu Cavalry got closer and closer, eyewitness reports indicate that the venerable dragon’s grin slowly disappeared, beads of sweat the size of Muck Drubbs began to form on his brow, and 3 of his 7 testicles receded in an unprecedented display of terror.
“I was like ‘SHIT SHIT SHIT’, you know? There was a horse, right, but there was a GUY RIDING IT,” he recounted, visibly shaking at the memory.
“A GUY. Riding A HORSE,” he continued.
As the Cavalry drew near only one thing was clear to the great Scourge of All That Lives.
“There was no way I could go down there to stop it. Nuh-uh. NOOOOOO WAY.”
“I mean are you even listening to me? HE WAS RIDING A HORSE. I mean, shit man.”
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GG News: Bomb Scares Uncommon on the 10th Floor of the M Building
Recent bomb scares on the 10th floor in the venerable M building have many of the workers there worried.
Willis Ramo is head of security for the building and says that scares such as these, though uncommon, are nothing new to the building. As such, he claims, his staff is well prepared to deal with such threats.
“The key thing for my men is to be alert, and that starts with a good Sleep,” Willis said. “Then if a crisis hits, like a Fireball suddenly ripping through the building, they have enough Control of their Mind to not be Overrun with emotions and effectively get all the civilians out of Harm’s Way,” he continued.
“Serra Angel,” he added.
When asked about what measures he has in place, Willis could not go into specifics citing security concerns, but did offer one tidbit. “You know, between you and me,” Willis said while leaning in and lowering his voice, “this isn’t even the 10th floor! We put a big M10 placard over the 11th floor sign to throw ’em off!”.
