so in m11, i can scry on my turn drawing a card, and setting up my next draw, then draw it with jace? Yes please.
CEman
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
3 and a half stars? Really? Jace is a staple draw engine.
CJM2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At the absolute worst, Jace is a free card plus direct damage/attack directed away from your face, for three mana. I'll take that.
dudecow
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Jace 2.0 has stolen a lot of this guy's thunder, but he's still a powerful card.
MDStrawHat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Drawing cards can definitely wins games.
paladinbrice69
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
he doesn't seem that impressive. If you have a couple of Underworld dreams out, that make him an unstable fella. Not that hes bad, but not overly great either.
ChampionofSquee
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Jace and Jace's Erasure alone make a mill deck. Throw in underworld drams, liliana, and liliana's caress, and they're screwed to the max.
Eric1618
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(11 votes)
I think lil' Jace actually still has some playability in standard. He's not Mind Sculptor, true, but he does have a few significant advantages over big jace:
1. He costs 1 less. This is actually pretty significant, as mind sculptor competes with lots of other good 4 drops- like Day of Judgement.
2. His +2 does something for you immediately. Fatesealing just isn't that good, and you almost always need to do it immediately to put big jace out of lightning bolt range. The howling mine effect is, in most cases, superior for the control decks that tend to play jace.
3. His final ability is easier to activate. It costs less, and it's just easier to protect jace long enough for him to 'go off' with a constant howling mine effect than it is to protect a constant fateseal.
4. He doesn't cost 80$ a pop.
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i like him better than 2.0 because he's less of a target, and people are less likely to try and use his ultimate to win.
Jonnythekid107
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Pulled this, a Frost Titan, and a Sarkhan the Mad all in one day. God, do I love good luck days like this. With all the scrying in this set, this card almost reaches the hights his Mindsculptor form did.
iNathan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
love this card, goes perfect in my mill deck hehe.
TheGodOfWar91
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Always remember that Jace 2.0 will someday rotate out. This one won't, since it will probably always be in core sets.
gromgrom777
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
dies to removal
TraRobins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo with Jace's Erasure. Consistent mill followed by his eventually explosion of twenty cards gone. Though the finale can't beat the Mindsculptor
Got my first M11 booster today, and this was in it =D
Epic win I'd say
bijart_dauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
gromgrom777, so dose almost anything else, so stop posting it.
his plus provides 2 and it dosnt suck, and he is a good card without the epic. i have seen multiple decks that will use duble sided draw efects to extreems combined with cards that keep you from feeling the disadvantage, and sense those decks are usually mill decks, jace provides a cheep card that will reward you for doing what your deck dose anyway. while he dosnt fit in many decks, he is defenintly solid in the ones he dose.
i am also I am quite surprised that no one has pointed out that he is the cheapest planeswalker.
cloneffect
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's interesting how many blue/white control decks run 1,2, or even 3 copies of little Jace now, alongside their 2/3 copies of big Jace. Sun Titan has really increased his playability, and so has mana leak, since you just don't want to be tapping out that often these days, particularly not on turn 4. The move towards permission control and away from tap-out means that little Jace has really started to shine post-m11.
jaceismybigbrother
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card rocks the socks and i have it in a blue mill/artifact deck (i only play for fun so it is open format)...add some jace erasure's and tome scour and millstone and this is a steady way to make your opponent deck out, adding stuff to make you draw cards accelerates the milling via the jace's erasures and before ya know it you have ten counters on berelen and pop...game over...if the mill doesn't work i usually manage to have a bunch of artifacts and play broodstars and clones of them, steel overseer doesn't hurt either...i'm thinking of adding tezz to this and having something pretty special
Guest513736147
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I have to say that I'm not a huge fan of original Jace. Let's consider what happens when you play him (ignoring the Howling Mine effect, since it really isn't good from a card advantage standpoint, though you might use it before he dies):
3 mana Draw a card Dies to bolt, shock, or an attack with any power 2+ creature
3 mana Draw 2 cards Dies to bolt, shock, etc
3 mana Draw 3 cards, dies
Would I pay 3 mana for a cantrip optional (for the opponent) Fog? I doubt it. Would I pay 3 mana for Divination plus an optional Fog? Now that sounds better. Would I pay 3 mana for 3 cards? Hell yes.
The problem, however, is that your opponent gets to decide how good he is. If he hits Jace with an attack or bolt after one card, I always feel like I've wasted 3 mana. If he spends a card to kill it, at least I'm up a card (1 card spent , 1 card drawn, opponent played 1 card), but if he kills him with an attack, I've just spent 3 mana to draw a card and prevent some damage. I'm underwhelmed.
WarpSpider_Ex
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Jace is definitely substituting my archivist in my deck... I just wanna play standard now...
Jedijoe
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
This is currently the only planeswalker that can benefit from the Sun Titan's ability...
Sixty3Zero
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
So I pulled this in a M11 (along with a holo Drowned Catacomb, sweet) and I traded a few things for my friend's JvC Jace. I might make a Standard Mill deck now.
I also remember when I was watching a duel. One of my friends was using a B/Bk deck of sorts, and Jaced himself. He sent his top 20 cards to his grave and finished with Mortal Combat. Fatality.
Daikoru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I must say I like when my opponent plays this Planeswalker. It is the cheapest indeed, but no one can refuse free draws! That's why I usually hurt him ennough not to allow him to use his last ability, but not too much so that he's stays alive. Besides, if I ever wanted to destroy him, I'd do that just before he gets to use his last ability.
opinionfailure
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
I love me some Beleren. Two reasons; A.) I love drawing extra cards and B.) He doesn't cost $70.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He's pretty good in standard. Card draw which prevents your opponent easily landing a Jace TMS. Fishable with Sun Titan meaning you can keep on drawing. Can draw burn spells, resulting in 2 for 1s.
For people talking about leaving him around because their opponent is constantly using his +2... if they are, they're doing it wrong (in standard at least; though I don't believe mill is a huge strategy in the other formats either). The only time to use the +2 is if he's on one loyalty and you don't have another Jace v1 or v2 to drop behind him, and if your opponent isn't playing blue then it's still debatable. If you don't remove him ASAP, your opponent is getting 2-3 cards for 3 mana, which is fantastic.
@Guest5137etc... you say your opponent gets to decide, but really, the state of the battlefield gives you a pretty good indication of whether or not Jace will die to an attack. Unless they're playing hasty dudes (typically Vengevine or Goblin Guide in standard), you can tell if he's going to die or not based on the creatures you've got vs the creatures your opponent has. Even if they end up removing a blocker to get through to Jace, you've forced them to use a removal spell on a creature they might not have otherwise.
He's obviously not as good as his future self, but he still has his uses. In standard, there's a good reason why many decks run 4 v2s and 2+ v1s. When I'm playing UW/UB, I'm almost never unhappy to drop one of these on turn 3.
Dilbot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I am confused how to use planeswalkers. Could someone explain please?
ZombieSnail
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Magic's original emo protagonist, one of the five who helped reinvigorate the game. : Destroy target Jace Planeswalker Not only that, but a great card draw engine/damage sponge My Lorwyn copy from the prerelease is probably my most treasured card. 4.5/5
shanebodimer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Jace Beleren is a party for everyone!
PoliticalCorleone
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
You know if Jace the Mind Sculptor wasn't around, people would talk about this card being incredibly awesome.
And if you look back at the pre-JtMS days, he was seeing a good bit of play in blue decks.
All of that means TURN 1 ultimate of any planeswalker (as in the first turn it comes out)
Vividice
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
In my opinion the worst Planeswalker ever printed. In 95% of all cases he is just a better Temple Bell. Better Temple Bell in the way that your enemy draws cards but only every third turn rather than each turn.
Most resolved Ultimates from the other Planeswalkers mean you allmost won. Or at least those are real win conditions. Your Enemy has drawn at least four cards to until you can finally use Jace Belerens ultimate.
There are only two reasons why this card sees any play: 1.Because he's a Vindicate vs the real Jace and 2. Because one deck type utilizes what would be a disadvantage in any other deck: Force your enemy to draw. But neither is Turbofog that good atm nor means it the card is good. Scornful Egotist is also utter crap as a card but has it's uses because of it's disadvantage.
ajpinton
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
He now has a pet named Consecrated Sphinx, to kill any down side from his +2 ability. I'll let you draw 1 so I can draw 3... I know its getting a little comboish, but adding Jace's Erasure now makes them draw 1 you draw 3 and they mill 3, how better can you spell card advantage???
fanofmagic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
made4ipod
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(12 votes)
Jace Beleren: Raping your deck since Lorwyn.
pjlizard
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Still a useful card. With all the draw in blue it is nice to get rid of their top 20 so you don't get decked if it comes to that.
jacesoringarruk
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm finally getting this card next week :DDDDDDDDDD
Riki1232
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
can't wait to use him in race for jace
volkethefireman
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Has its uses. Unfortunately, it has the name "Jace" in it, so I find it difficult to like. Unreasonable? Of course.
GoatKnapper
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
One of my Favorite planeswalkers ever. Why? because he's is pretty the only planeswalker you can drop and your opponenet(s) won't go "OH CRAP WE GOTTA IT AND THE PLAYER (aka you) ASAP" having said that anyone smart enough will probably kill him quickly.
Personally i dont actively compare him to Money-Sculpter cuase thats just not fair (obviously Money-Sculpter is better and cost 12 times as much, but get over it). this guy is still one the best 3 drops around and i know its been said but a Kicked Rite of Replication on a Consecrated Sphinx and this guys +1 equals your opponents draws 1 and you draw 13 (or more depending on how many opponents you have), gotta love it...5/5 anyday
Ninjazilla
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Okay, Jace is an okay planeswalker, but I think that I'd want one most simply for its art. Everyone looks more badass when they wear hoods like that. Even Anakin pulled that off
mrhardy12
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
@ajpinton: Or even better: FOUR Jace's Erasures and at least TWO Consecrated Sphinxes: MORE CARDS FROM DECK TO SOMEWHERE along with his ultimate EVERY FREAKING TURN while GAINING loyalty counters:
Each player draws 1. Because your opponent(s) drew one, you draw four more (per opponent in the game). Because you drew four per opponent, and one from Jace himself, you get to activate all four Erasures FIVE TIMES AT THE MINIMUM! Let's count that. They drew 1 card, then milled... four times five is... twenty. Oh, wait. His ultimate says this: "-10: Target player puts the top twenty cards of his or her deck into his or her graveyard". You just preformed this for +2, ALONG with making them draw a card, for a total of 21 cards taken out of their deck. Not to mention the Jace's Erasure activations at the start of your turn, or the Consecrated Sphinx and Jace's Erasure when you decide to END your turn.
Note: I've actually been able to pull this off fairly consistantly with my personal mill deck. Just FYI.
Also, imagine the chaos of this: FOUR Consecrated Sphinx for this combo. Ouch. If only 2 is 16 milled, then 4 is 32, added to that extra four from your initial card. Ouch.
Heeltoeclutch
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Jace is such a BAMF. Both versions. In my experience, Mind Sculptor doesn't tend to stay out too long - people are so scared of him he becomes an instant target. Beleren, however, makes people happy! Yay let's draw some cards! Beleren has helped me mill many an opponent, especially with Jace's Erasure to help out. Two of those and a Beleren just eat libraries. :)
Joseph_Leito
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I like him better than Mind Sculptor. He's not as good, but I like him better anyway. I go out of my way to play him in my blue decks.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Card Advantage {1UU} Planeswalker- Card Advantage +2: Game goes faster. -1: Card Advantage. -10: Don't activate this ability. It doesn't do anything.
chives5602
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Tried playing with him I can tell you now I think he sucks.
BuffJittePLZ
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
@chives5602: I can tell you now, you're doing something wrong.
Lyoncet
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
So it looks like M12 is giving us Jace, Memory Adept in place of this guy. Unless I just totally got trolled by like 5 sites at the same time.
+1: Draw a card. Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. 0: Target player puts the top 10 cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. -7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards. Loyalty 4
I really don't know. Of course Jace, the Mind Sculptor wasn't going to get a reprint. So it was Jace Beleren or something new. While it's nice that you can use JMA for straight draw while building loyalty without getting your opponent a card too (and actually a pretty cool ultimate for a mill/control deck), he's 5 CMC. 2 more than baby Jace (so what, Memory Adept must be Middle Sibling Jace), and one more than the general sweet spot for a 'walker. And the focus on milling befuddles me a bit, but perhaps it's going to become more prominent of a strategy again - particularly after the Eldrazi rotate out.
Still, excited to see how it will work out, especially with Jace's Erasure getting reprinted and the new Jace's Archivist. Sad to see this one rotate out though. Although I suppose if we keep seeing things like Halimar Depths in the future, his +1 could be pretty comboable, letting you draw the best card of the three and discard the worst. And allegedly, Innistrad is supposed to have a lot of graveyard-based mechanics, so perhaps milling yourself will end up being commonplace. Guess we'll have to wait and find out how it will work in its context (WotC has only spoiled 21 blue cards from M12 as of this posting).
5 CMC though. And really heavily focused on one strategy in place of the general versatility of JMS and the straight draw engine of Baby Jace. Sadface. But optimistic sadface.
marwinshieldscale
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
not only are we getting jace the memory adept I hear there will be new vrsions of chandra and garruk as well but I'm not entirerly sure
divine_exodus
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@marwinshieldscale:
An interesting thing to note was that when they released the visual spoiler, the only planeswalkers shown were Gideon Jura and Sorin Markov. No red, green, or blue planeswalker. Upon seeing this, I automatically thought, "Now why would they show two and not all five?" I figured that they had new planeswalkers for the other colors. So far, I've been right. I'm hoping for a new Chandra and Garruk, but we'll just have to wait and see. They release new cards every day now, so keep checking back and maybe we'll get new planeswalkers to go along with our memory adept.
EDIT
We now know that there are new Garruks and Chandras, Primal Hunter and the Firebrand, respectively.
This is how planeswalkers should be. Needs a reprint.
gatorjunkie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I think this really benefits from Rooftop Storm. If you get two or more Beleren's out and every zombie you draw costs nothing...that is a serious advantage. Undead Alchemist makes that combo even deadlier, and then use the ultimate to get more Zombies. Throw in Lich Lord of Unx, Jace's Erasure, and some other cards and you've got a pretty decent zombie swarm mill deck.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Brilliant multiplayer card (who wants to kill the dude handing out the cards?), and no slouch in duels either.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You know you can't have two Jaces out because of the planeswalker rule?
But seriously, this is the best Jace. All of the others are so boring and overpowered while this one is just the best in card draw. A blue deck needs card draw more than mill and crap.
This card is in every blue commander deck.
mono_blue_forever
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just such an amazing draw engine...works so well in a mono blue deck, of any kind really...
jontagion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hi big jace, meet my turn 2 mini Jace, how do you like me now?
TheKazu
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is the most boring blue planeswalker. I'm sorry. I'm not saying he's bad, he's just boring...
StudentOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Jace, I Love You, You Are Amazing!
TheJank-O-Mancerguy
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy is sick in Owl Control(a very successful deck that I invented) . No, like, seriously, try it, Jace Beleren, Owl control, its amazing provided that your not a n00b (sry n00bs) that doesn't know how to run control. It sounds crazy, I know, but it works.
Tune in next time for another episode "Blue Mana and Buttkicking"
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Quite a draw engine. Worst case scenario, this is a little more expensive Howling Mine. Best case, it's Phyrexian Arena for 3 turns with no drawback.
It used to be used mainly as 1UU: Destroy target Jace, the Mind Sculptor. It's really quite funny.
Winhert
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
TURBOFOGS!
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Remember how this used to be a JTMS kill spell? Yeah, not anymore.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Can often read: "Each player draws a card. Draw 5 cards."
He's very unassuming and is silent card advantage; so may not even be attacked except by good players.
Good ol Durdle Jace. Making your opponent discard at the cleanup step since 2007.
Kadaver666
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm everyone's best friend, until someone attacks me, then I make them mill 20 cards... I like him xD, one of my favorite Blue planeswalker cards along with Tamiyo, Tezzeret and Mind Sculptor.
Sootoo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Justin Bieber amongst the planeswalkers. And I like him just as much as this... not at all.
Hopefully wizards finally get off from their strange Jace fetish, and start to make some cool planeswalkers for a change.
Reishyn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy curves perfectly into Notion Thief for a pretty sick card draw combo. You draw 2 or more cards a turn and Jace gets so pumped that even if they take out the Thief you should be able to use Jace's second ability for the rest of the game. And that's ignoring the fact that it cancels out all your opponents' draw cards and engines. One player's Phyrexian Arena becomes a steady death sentence while you get to profit off of it.
Comments (75)
1. He costs 1 less. This is actually pretty significant, as mind sculptor competes with lots of other good 4 drops- like Day of Judgement.
2. His +2 does something for you immediately. Fatesealing just isn't that good, and you almost always need to do it immediately to put big jace out of lightning bolt range. The howling mine effect is, in most cases, superior for the control decks that tend to play jace.
3. His final ability is easier to activate. It costs less, and it's just easier to protect jace long enough for him to 'go off' with a constant howling mine effect than it is to protect a constant fateseal.
4. He doesn't cost 80$ a pop.
Epic win I'd say
his plus provides 2 and it dosnt suck, and he is a good card without the epic. i have seen multiple decks that will use duble sided draw efects to extreems combined with cards that keep you from feeling the disadvantage, and sense those decks are usually mill decks, jace provides a cheep card that will reward you for doing what your deck dose anyway. while he dosnt fit in many decks, he is defenintly solid in the ones he dose.
i am also I am quite surprised that no one has pointed out that he is the cheapest planeswalker.
3 mana
Draw a card
Dies to bolt, shock, or an attack with any power 2+ creature
3 mana
Draw 2 cards
Dies to bolt, shock, etc
3 mana
Draw 3 cards, dies
Would I pay 3 mana for a cantrip optional (for the opponent) Fog? I doubt it.
Would I pay 3 mana for Divination plus an optional Fog? Now that sounds better.
Would I pay 3 mana for 3 cards? Hell yes.
The problem, however, is that your opponent gets to decide how good he is. If he hits Jace with an attack or bolt after one card, I always feel like I've wasted 3 mana. If he spends a card to kill it, at least I'm up a card (1 card spent , 1 card drawn, opponent played 1 card), but if he kills him with an attack, I've just spent 3 mana to draw a card and prevent some damage. I'm underwhelmed.
I also remember when I was watching a duel. One of my friends was using a B/Bk deck of sorts, and Jaced himself. He sent his top 20 cards to his grave and finished with Mortal Combat. Fatality.
For people talking about leaving him around because their opponent is constantly using his +2... if they are, they're doing it wrong (in standard at least; though I don't believe mill is a huge strategy in the other formats either). The only time to use the +2 is if he's on one loyalty and you don't have another Jace v1 or v2 to drop behind him, and if your opponent isn't playing blue then it's still debatable. If you don't remove him ASAP, your opponent is getting 2-3 cards for 3 mana, which is fantastic.
@Guest5137etc... you say your opponent gets to decide, but really, the state of the battlefield gives you a pretty good indication of whether or not Jace will die to an attack. Unless they're playing hasty dudes (typically Vengevine or Goblin Guide in standard), you can tell if he's going to die or not based on the creatures you've got vs the creatures your opponent has. Even if they end up removing a blocker to get through to Jace, you've forced them to use a removal spell on a creature they might not have otherwise.
He's obviously not as good as his future self, but he still has his uses. In standard, there's a good reason why many decks run 4 v2s and 2+ v1s. When I'm playing UW/UB, I'm almost never unhappy to drop one of these on turn 3.
Not only that, but a great card draw engine/damage sponge
My Lorwyn copy from the prerelease is probably my most treasured card.
4.5/5
And if you look back at the pre-JtMS days, he was seeing a good bit of play in blue decks.
Viridian Joiner
Gilder Bairn
Training Grounds (although its possible without this and with the high mana production of Viridian joiners ability)
All of that means TURN 1 ultimate of any planeswalker (as in the first turn it comes out)
In 95% of all cases he is just a better Temple Bell.
Better Temple Bell in the way that your enemy draws cards but only every third turn rather than each turn.
Most resolved Ultimates from the other Planeswalkers mean you allmost won. Or at least those are real win conditions. Your Enemy has drawn at least four cards to until you can finally use Jace Belerens ultimate.
There are only two reasons why this card sees any play:
1.Because he's a Vindicate vs the real Jace
and
2. Because one deck type utilizes what would be a disadvantage in any other deck: Force your enemy to draw. But neither is Turbofog that good atm nor means it the card is good.
Scornful Egotist is also utter crap as a card but has it's uses because of it's disadvantage.
Personally i dont actively compare him to Money-Sculpter cuase thats just not fair (obviously Money-Sculpter is better and cost 12 times as much, but get over it). this guy is still one the best 3 drops around and i know its been said but a Kicked Rite of Replication on a Consecrated Sphinx and this guys +1 equals your opponents draws 1 and you draw 13 (or more depending on how many opponents you have), gotta love it...5/5 anyday
Each player draws 1. Because your opponent(s) drew one, you draw four more (per opponent in the game). Because you drew four per opponent, and one from Jace himself, you get to activate all four Erasures FIVE TIMES AT THE MINIMUM! Let's count that. They drew 1 card, then milled... four times five is... twenty. Oh, wait. His ultimate says this: "-10: Target player puts the top twenty cards of his or her deck into his or her graveyard". You just preformed this for +2, ALONG with making them draw a card, for a total of 21 cards taken out of their deck. Not to mention the Jace's Erasure activations at the start of your turn, or the Consecrated Sphinx and Jace's Erasure when you decide to END your turn.
Note: I've actually been able to pull this off fairly consistantly with my personal mill deck. Just FYI.
Also, imagine the chaos of this: FOUR Consecrated Sphinx for this combo. Ouch. If only 2 is 16 milled, then 4 is 32, added to that extra four from your initial card. Ouch.
{1UU}
Planeswalker- Card Advantage
+2: Game goes faster.
-1: Card Advantage.
-10: Don't activate this ability. It doesn't do anything.
Jace, Memory Adept
{3}{U}{U}
Planeswalker – Jace Mythic Rare
+1: Draw a card. Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
0: Target player puts the top 10 cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
-7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.
Loyalty 4
I really don't know. Of course Jace, the Mind Sculptor wasn't going to get a reprint. So it was Jace Beleren or something new. While it's nice that you can use JMA for straight draw while building loyalty without getting your opponent a card too (and actually a pretty cool ultimate for a mill/control deck), he's 5 CMC. 2 more than baby Jace (so what, Memory Adept must be Middle Sibling Jace), and one more than the general sweet spot for a 'walker. And the focus on milling befuddles me a bit, but perhaps it's going to become more prominent of a strategy again - particularly after the Eldrazi rotate out.
Still, excited to see how it will work out, especially with Jace's Erasure getting reprinted and the new Jace's Archivist. Sad to see this one rotate out though. Although I suppose if we keep seeing things like Halimar Depths in the future, his +1 could be pretty comboable, letting you draw the best card of the three and discard the worst. And allegedly, Innistrad is supposed to have a lot of graveyard-based mechanics, so perhaps milling yourself will end up being commonplace. Guess we'll have to wait and find out how it will work in its context (WotC has only spoiled 21 blue cards from M12 as of this posting).
5 CMC though. And really heavily focused on one strategy in place of the general versatility of JMS and the straight draw engine of Baby Jace. Sadface. But optimistic sadface.
An interesting thing to note was that when they released the visual spoiler, the only planeswalkers shown were Gideon Jura and Sorin Markov. No red, green, or blue planeswalker. Upon seeing this, I automatically thought, "Now why would they show two and not all five?" I figured that they had new planeswalkers for the other colors. So far, I've been right. I'm hoping for a new Chandra and Garruk, but we'll just have to wait and see. They release new cards every day now, so keep checking back and maybe we'll get new planeswalkers to go along with our memory adept.
EDIT
We now know that there are new Garruks and Chandras, Primal Hunter and the Firebrand, respectively.
Sorcery - Jace Mythic Rare
Destroy target Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
But seriously, this is the best Jace. All of the others are so boring and overpowered while this one is just the best in card draw. A blue deck needs card draw more than mill and crap.
This card is in every blue commander deck.
Tune in next time for another episode "Blue Mana and Buttkicking"
It used to be used mainly as 1UU: Destroy target Jace, the Mind Sculptor. It's really quite funny.
"Each player draws a card.
Draw 5 cards."
He's very unassuming and is silent card advantage; so may not even be attacked except by good players.
Hopefully wizards finally get off from their strange Jace fetish, and start to make some cool planeswalkers for a change.