Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Best Planeswalker of them all got more than a playset of these and they r worth it! Recommend getting a playset for any Jace/Blue collection no collection is complete without it

This is the greatest planeswalker ever printed, a must buy, i strongly recommend him for any blue deck.

I miss you Jace, the Awesome.

this card is so good itts not allowed to be played in standard... jace the mindsculpter...banned

banned

Jace has been defeated in standard, by the banhammer :D

Easily the best planeswalker ever printed, but it's banned now. Watch the price plummet.

And sickle... you're playing magic entirely wrong. That's not how any of those cards work. Neither of those cards give any sort of bonus whatsoever to planeswalkers. Even if you were to make them artifacts or creatures, they don't affect their loyalty counters.

I put it in my mill deck, does wonders with a tome scour

I still think he is very overrated. Herre is what i view to be a non broken Jace:
+2 (Fateseal)
-1 (Brainstorm)
-14 (Deck Rape)
Do you all agree? I think he loses half his value at least but this makes him still flavourful, playable, but you have to be working towards his ultimate, at which point i think he becomes an average planeswalker. I hateeeee how they make him so cheap. This guy right here costs 3UU or maybe even 3UUU. Thats fair, chandra ablaze? To much to be playable. I have never had a problem with him at all, I just slam him next turn with a bolt and an abyssall persecutor, and my oopponent essentially just payed 2UU for a brainstorm. If you cant back him up with wall of denials or real creatures like baneslayer angel, then you don't know what your doing, you just wasted 85$ for nothing more than a creature distraction. Need to use it at the right time and with the right abilities. The ultimate is so far off and not even too great, its just almost out of question. I think ive won more games than not after being "Jaced", because my opponents just keep losing life. His ultimate has no immediate game change.

This is the best card ever printed. Not only is he for control decks, you can put him in a Tempered Steel deck too. Turn 3, Tempered Steel. Turn 4, Jace comes with 5 loyalty counters instead of 3 because of Tempered Steel. Then use Giant Growth and he gets 8 Loyalty Counters. I do have one question though: Does he lose the 3 Loyalty Counters at the end of the turn or does it stay?

It's obviously a five-star planeswalker. Not many cards have the equivalent of "Remove a few counters: Target player concedes." But he's got one serious weakness...

The best planeswalker ever printed by far. Any standard deck without Jace is probably a losing deck. Even being a 4 drop, it is still very playable in Legacy though not as strong.

He's still the king of Standard. I wonder what will happen when he rotates out...

Most broken card ever made

This is the swiss army knife for any blue deck. It combines 3 cheap blue spells into a single card; brainstorm, unsummon, and eye spy. Too bad Jace cost more than 300x the price of the individual blue spells hes made of. Hes expensive because hes quite powerful in Standard but the same can't be said about Legacy or Vintage. Overpriced but great if you get one out of a booster for standard.

Best Card in the game, EXILE your opponents deck!!....ill Take 4 please, my mates face is priceless when i EXILE his deck, now thats well worth the cost.

The worst thing to happen to MTG in recent times. Obviously too powerful. One of those, in standard you are either WITH him.. or AGAINST him. If you are against him you pretty much HAVE to have access to Instant speed direct damage (Might kill him)/ Vampire Hexmage (Will kill him)/Waking Lands (best of which is Creeping Tarpit.. which might kill him)/ Your own baby Jace to remove them both from the board (YAY)/ Memoricide (if not counterd[probably will be] gets rid of him before he's even a threat)/Grave Titan (probably countered or bounced, if bounced then his tokens should kill him) and that is about it for your standard options. Or your with him. (too much money/not enough brains to not spend a small stack on a piece of cardboard) More kills lie in extended, most of which are also absurdly priced staple cards. (I.E. Maelstrom Pulse) He's too powerful and never should have been printed as is. (but wotc needed a good reason to raise sales of sealed product) If a planeswalker kill card were printed his power would be justifiable. (should look something like 3 colorless for a sorcery whos extra costs are pay 3 life, discard a card, play only during your first main phase before any other spells, you cant play creatures this turn) *laughs*

There's nothig like control the game with Jace XD

Best card in standard, stays OUT of bolt range because of priority is jace's controller once he resolves

It's the most powerfull planeswalker by far. I use it on a blue/green deck with lorescale coatl (great combo with his brainstorm ability), garruk and doubling season (works great with both planeswalkers on the deck). :D

I read about him and was at a local store checkout on day and seen a $2 6 card booster. Had to buy it guess what I pull? A foil jace! Awesome.

i lol at people saying the card will go down and that it sucks, if you lose after you stick this card 1 of 3 things are going on 1, you are so far gone anything you do will lose the game, 2, you hae no diea how to play the game properly/are a bad player and/or 3, you cant build a deck to save your life
simply 7 of 8 top worlds decks played 4 of him for standard, if price drop at all only when rotation hits then in time i think it will come up just for collectors, his value is shown in price packs 200 for a box is high (for standard) and this is pretty much the only notable card (other than manlands) and the only card you can pull to even come close to paying off your box

Any person rating below 5 stars has to have something very wrong with them. No need to explain the card, if you're not an idiot, you'd realize his 3 playable abilities are amazing. Control? Counters? Seems to be in every standard tournament-winning deck, Jace, The Mind Sculptor is present.. Get your facts straight, most rock either: 4 Sculptor. or 4 Beleren. or 3 Sculptor, 3 Beleren. Either way, You need to have an answer for Jace.

Yeah this Jace is pretty sick, and will continue to dominate the format for a good while. His first 3 abilities are classic blue spells and his final really shows the power of this dominating blue mage. And Maro Orange above, it sounds like there's a problem with the rest of your deck, not with Jace.

The problem is not with jace, but with the rest of your deck.
I need some fore my blue mill/prolifforate...
Heheheh, hoping it will go down in price soon
(by the way, if you hate your jace so much you can give him to me:))

You obviously can't make decks or shuffle or else you would know that Jace is too good NOT to have in any standard blue deck.

I was able to trade my four Jace TMS (one of which was foil) and get four near mint Revised Underground Seas. If this isn't a ringing endorsement of a Standard-legal card, I don't know what is.

..5 stars for jace, ey mora from outerspace , I think you just put this awesome card in your stupid deck , this card alone cannot win you in a game so dont focus on jace too much , but with a little bit help of other cards then for sure it might win you , you said that your friend beat you with his creatures? What is that ?, jace is commonly used in a UW control deck , if creature is your problem then splash them out with WOG or DOJ ...

I disagree with the last poster. This card is awesome!!! It's worth it's $80+ price tag. If it wasn't a game winner then why would most competitive deck builders use it?
or Maybe you don't know how to play the card correctly.....

Woot!! Finally have a Jace after a booster box and many packs later..... This card is pure awesomeness!

Is that so...? I think the people who stick with Brainstorm never face this Jace on the board. (I assume that he just playing with his mother or numb players). When first I look this card, I think the same as you (that I prefer Brainstorm) because it's quick as 1 blue mana instant. But when my opponent plays Jace and I'm stuck of counter (that's time is crap that I don't have Force of Will or Daze in my hand) then I realize how difficult to handle this one. If I don't bounce it with Vapor, then my opponent will get Brainstorm each turn!!! And unfortunately, he also bring Jace and Brainstorm together..... so if you can handle Jace, then he still can use Brainstorm to get another solution. And what's more... you're wasting your time and spell to handle that it.

I agree to use Brainstorm, especially for Legacy and Vintage. But my friend, we're talking about standard format.... not Legacy or Vintage. I believe you don't have this card, if you have then you'll never talk like that... I am Legacy player, and I buy Jace the Mind Sculptor 4. At once, I buy them just for collection, but I try to including this card in Legacy tournaments, the result is "not strong enough against combo deck" like Tendrils and Two-lands Bellcher, but well worth against Merfolk, Goblins, Survival, and the other common decks.... I won 3rd because of this card. Thanks Jace.

Best card in standard, no doubt!!

I agree about guy above me. But wait, 1 mana for brainstorm eh? That's good idea.... are you talking about legacy or standard format????????

Anonymous, you are so bad it's laughable.

I think he's pretty good. Use Cultivate to protect him while you use his 0 ability. Then bounce him back in my hand with Day of Judgement. Bring him back out to get his loyalty points back to 3. Rinse and Repeat. Sick.

awsome card! best planswalker

Above customer who said Nicol Bolas is beter is crazy, Nicol costs 8 mana of three different colours, he's just too pricy, if there was anyone who might be more powered than Jace, it's Tezzeret (the only PW played in Vintage if you notice). Elspeth is close behind Jace, and all I gotta say is I can't wait for Venser, the three of them will pwn together in my U/W control deck!

One of the easieest 5-star ratings I've ever had to give. And it's still worth fishing for him in Worldwake packs due to many useful cards. Manlands, Persecutors, Sparkmages, various allies. The list is too big to name. I've never been able to pull one to date, so Jace, the House Payment is still eluding me. Would happily run 2-4 in my planned UB midrange deck, even post-rotation.

crazy good card, started getting back into magic, saw this card was immediately one of my favorite cards, just bought a intro pack, and ONE worldwake booster...guess who i got, this seriously good card

The ultimate control card: it fateseals, it draws, it unsummons and it has a built in win condition. Oddly, it's the fateseal ability that makes him incredible sick. This definitely ranks as one of the best cards ever printed.

....yap.... the most overpowered planeswalker..... unfortunately i dont have one hahaha....

Jace the Mind Sculptor has brought something back to the formats, Standard especially. As a 4 mana house, he will continuously up your tempo throughout the game, and if you get to the point you have 100% lockdown on your opponent. I see him being used as 4 of in decks when alara block is gone, hes just that damn good.

Of course it still work in extendeed. I had try this card with my Faerie Deck. During your opponent's upkeep, I play Mistbind Clique... to tap all lands that player control. Then In my turn, I used Jace to bounce my Mistbind... (after the Mistbind attack) and at the next opponent's upkeep, play Mistbind again... and again.... it buys all the time to win the game...

I never expected that the WotC will print this card. It's very sad that I must buy this expensive card, but it's very nice that this card give me more than 47 game win against any player's decks!!! Hueheheheheh!!! Thanks to the new Jace!!

This is the best planeswalker by far. Different than the old ones... the new Jace now can control the top each player's library, brainstorm, unsummon, and give you a game win... this card really amazing...

I play with my friend and this Jace is very powerful.... The fateseal ability also make my friend frustated (that he draw 5 lands in 5 turns). I'm not using Brainstorm because I have already control the board, and later in game the ultimate ability is blowing up...!! This card really awesome!!! Thanks for Troll and WoTC, I have 4 of them...

This card is a God of blue decks... awesome...!

For Jace I give 5 Stars. He's the best planeswalker in blue deck (or any deck that splash of blue)....

Five stars, no more... no less...!!! This card is amazing. Thanks to WotC and Troll... I able to completed my set...

I'm an old legacy player and when I saw this card, I know that this card is very potential in the game. The mana cost may be a problem in legacy deck. But if you successfully cast it, it can solve many problems... Jace, the best planeswalker by far!!!

In the legacy, this Jace still kick serious butt!!! He's brainstrom ability is overwhelming, unsummon a big creature, amazing....

This is the best planeswalker! He's my key in order to win the game. Five stars no doubt....

I agree with that. I play Jace and use fateseal turn after turn until he's loyality up to 13, and then.... bye my friend... CU in next game!!! Oh yeah... and I want to say that you must keep this card because until extendeed, it's still powerful as your main deck (for blue base deck)....

What the..?! I think there's Sarkhan the Mad who reduce it's stock until just 20.... tomorrow I saw it 59... Five stars, the best planeswalker (along with Elspeth)...

Five Planeswalkers that I love : Elspeth, Sorin, Gideon, and Ajani Vengeant are cool. But this Jace may be the best of the bunch.... He's not just control each player's top library, but also can Unsummon and Brainstrom!! And for 2UU, cheap cost....

This card is awesome!! Thanks to WOTC, this planeswalker is very powerful.

The best planeswalker!! In blue base deck, this card will give you access to control the board, each player's library, even to end the game!!!

I agree with you man! The old Jace may be not strong enough by itself, but this new Jace is very... very different... Five star no doubt!!!

Dude, this best card ever by itself. one time i used his maximum ability right? so my opponent was lucky to have 7 cards in his hand and i was at 1 life. so he was like, "oh, i still have time. i can beat him." but no, i just had to use a keening stone on him. do you know what was even better? the guy had exactly 7 cards in his graveyard. Boom boom go bye bye. >:)

With Gideon Jura in play, Jace the Mind Sculptor will become a great threat!!! Gideon will protect Jace by redirect any damages to him instead of player/your other planeswalker, and if Gideon's loyality is low - use it's 0 ultimate ability (becomes 6/6 human soldier creature) and bounce by Jace. Cast Gideon again to protect your Jace and the other planeswalkers!!!

Although I hate WOTC when they restricted Brainstorm in the vintage, but I apreciate they work after give another solution of the card drawing. You may think that this card is not able to used in the vintage, but you will see that this card is so powerful (as the vintage is not so many removal spells). This Jace can give you Brainstorm each turn, Unsummon, or control the next draw of any player!!! Also when you reach 12 loyalities, the game is all but over!!

this card is awesome. i use it in my blue mill deck. even though the last ability is basically a sure win, i rarely use it. i prefer to use his first, put the opponents top card on bottom, then play Tunnel Vision. name the card you just put on bottom, and as long as its the only one still in the deck, you win in 2 turns :P

This Jace better than the old ones, even the cost is higher this Jace will give you brainstorm, unsummon, and control the next draw of any player!!! Great for type 2 cards and I think it's still useful in the legacy deck....

There's a part of me that wants Wizards to reprint this come time Zendikar is out of Standard, but the rational side of me knows this will probably be the only four move planeswalker and might be worth a bundle in the future if it's never reprinted like some of the older cards.

epicousterigiosness ,thats the only word to describe the new jace if u dropped a foil one onto the battlefeild image your oponents faces!!!!!! :)

I hear ya David. I buy ALL my cards from Troll and Toad. Troll has the BEST price for Jace and I need 2 more as well. I agree, I hope they don't raise the price.

I got an e-mail notification that they had 15 non foil Jace's back in stock 2 hours ago and they're already sold out!!! The gods must never want me to be able to complete my playset. BOOOOO!

Wow Troll and Toad has the fairest price for this guy over any other online card shops. Too bad they're sold out :( Was gonna order 2 to complete my playset. Oh well i'm sure they'll restock soon. Just hope the price doesn't go up. They're like really expensive everywhere else. And right now T&T got 'em for a really good price >.< 5 stars this card is a total HOUSE!

Are you guys F'ing mad?! The expensive cost is only 4! 4 mana for a free brainstorm every turn and if your opponent manages to play a creature card that poses a threat, -1 for a boomerang. First, you beef him up by putting their powerful creatures on the bottom of their libraries then, you either boomerang or brainstorm AND if you are doing your job right he has no mUSAore library but the cards that were in his hand!

AMAZING< AMAZING! AMAZING. They shouldn't even have any text on the final ability.. It should just say.. YOU LOSE!! Glad I pulled two out of a FAT PACK XD.. 1 FOIL!

This cards power level is off the charts. Once shards of alara rotates this is gonna be the new T0. Grab your copies now while there still in this price range which is cheap for a card of this magnitude.

TOTALLY AWESOME. Besides this card being probably the best planeswalker. Chan's artwork is second to none. I bought the FOIL version from Troll and Toad; I know.... YAH, YAH, YAH! an expensive foil. But I had to have him. And T & T always sends cards that exceed my own grading criteria. Jace stands right beside my FOIL Goyf in terms of GORGEOUS FOILS. After looking closely at World Wake, I have come to the conclusion that this is a pretty good set. I originally only bought 1 booster box from T&T but have ordered 1 more since. Bottom line.....5 STARS across the board for the Sculptor.

Pulled this in my last pack out of the 8 prize packs I got for being in the top 8 at the midnight pre-release of WorldWake. I put it in my Fire & Ice control burn T2 deck, got 3rd place in the tournament with it in my deck and took out my opponent in the 1st round when I got this and M2010 Chandra out and the Sphix protecting both. He wanted to survive the burn so he aimed at Chandra first not expecting her to live long enough to see Jace get 13 Loyalty Counters. Made him say good by to his library and turn his hand of 3 cards into his new library. 3 turn clock put him down. Love this card.

Exellent! Garruk,Elspeth and now The new Jace! Planeswalkers are getting so powerfull!
All we need now is Exellent Planeswalkers in red and black as they pale in comparison to even goldmane,nissa and beleren... Vengant does not count as it gold...

The sculptor is by far the best plainswalker. Although, personally, I enjoy playing with Elspeth more, I spent no time picking up a playset of these AWESOME power cards. I also bought a FOIL version from Troll and Toad; it is probably the prettiest foil to date.

awesome

the price is not much for this new POWER card. it's like a new baneslayer just not white or a creture but in terms of power with all the combos. it is almost a power of nine card. 5 stars

Wow....just wow. That ultimate 4th ability has to be the single worst thing that can happen in a game of magic. Might not win everytime, but the slap to face feeling is unparalled, especially after having it sit on table for several turns.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor is absurdly powerful. His first ability can control your topdeck or your opponent's, which is actually very useful, especially in a color that is all about control. He has a ZERO cost Brainstorm! He can protect himself with Unsummons... and his last ability is more of an "I win" button than has been printed on any other planeswalker. He is phenomenal.

The most overpowered Plainswalker card to date. 5 stars for its overwhelming abilities. Right now I think this card is completely overpriced. I rather take a chance getting it with a booster box.

So much better than the original. Too bad you can't use both at the same time. But still glad I pulled two from a booster box!

The best planeswalker. I am glad I got one in my preordered box.

...lightning bolt, the end

You know why "you can't get the card to deal with" when you use Jace's "brainstorm" abiities? Yes, Maro Orange... you're right.... it's because your deck is laughable....... I always "brainstorm" and get the card I need... draw 3 and you don't find anything? Your deck is worse I think...... not because Jace.....

Great planeswalker, but not the best! Honestly I understand and have played with and against this card enough to totally respect its power, but it is not the most effective Planeswalker I've come across. That title goes strictly to Nicol Bolas! Then Jace Mind Sculptor, then Elspeth. Great card though, and I love him in by Black/Blue control deck.
Four stars

Good card, tough to keep alive with such a good ability list. Great for any blue deck or blue/other color combo deck.

Got him on my first two Worldwake packs :D

Very precarious card to use, he's in my UW type 2 control and the deck is brand new for me. I opened him in my box(yay) and when i drop him, i use him to keep my lockdown going with brainstorm and bounce ability, i also managed to manascrew my cousin with his first ability, with him and luminarch ascension in my deck, i am now 7-0

Jace finally met the banhammer. And though I hear people complaining that he and Stoneforge Mystic were going to rotate out of standard later this year and that the ban was therefore unnecessary, I still think sooner is better. With those cards in standard, M12 would hardly have had any impact on the standard environment, perhaps aside from giving the decks playing Jaces and Mystics more toys to play with. Those decks were overpowered to the extent where the vast majority of top-winning decks in standard were playing multiple copies of each of those cards.
Such situations ruin the game to the point where you either have to play Jaces/Mystics, or completely forget everything about competing in the standard environment.

It is absolutly rediculous

I give it 3 stars because it is obviously a super powerful card.

However I think it should've never been released. It detracts from the game and almost any standard blue deck without Jace is worse than a deck with Jace. Meaning, to be a good blue player you need to spend alot of $$.

It makes the other Jace planeswalker look like a Portal card, or a baby Jace. With Sculptor you get to BRAINSTORM for 0 cost, with Belerin you only get to draw for -1. The +2 Beleren ability sucks most of the time while Mind Sculptor's is rarely bad. The power disparity between the two Jaces is just a bit sickening.

I gave Jace 2 stars because he has lost me so many games, I played with my friend and i played jace and then i branstormed and i didn't get any good cards to deal with my friends creatures. This card will go down in value just like badslayer angel.

So its better than the other jace. That doesn't make it good. As a plansewalker, unless you already have complete control over the board (and have thus essentially already won), it will die the attack phase after it hits the table. So this is basically 4 mana for 3 life and your choice of brainstorm, fateseal, or a bounce spell. Not a completely awful deal, I'll agree, but I'll stick with my 1 mana brainstorm, thank you very much.

Banned come June 29th

Worst card ever. Save your money for Okk.

I GOT THIS IN MY FIRST BOOSTER!!!haha!!!!