I don’t think any Jace Fan would suggest Jace makes good choices, but it’s clear from the narrative that Jace was always going to do a heel turn. The tragedy of Jace is that his solutions are trying to save the world via domination rather than community. You cannot save something by controlling it.

Magic Card of the Day: Pinnacle Starcage One of the interesting things about deck homogenization is that silver bullet targeting gets more effective. With the current focus on 2 mana rocks, this card can reverse the escalation of multiple boards, often hitting 4 or more targets! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Astrologian's Planisphere Wizards get the best toys. With two ways to trigger this equipment quickly will take you spell slinger nerds to get super swole. Crack back with the power of knowledge! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Sphere of Annihilation It’s interesting when you put a wrath on the board that has a clock on it. Yeah it won’t blow up now, but it will if left alone and it will hit what I decreed. It’s sour if gets spot removed but if other folks are behind they might help protect it! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Jade Orb of Dragonkind A 3 mana rock has to add a lot but in a dragon (or a changeling) commander deck making it slightly bigger and protecting it for a round is incredible. You’ll untap with your commander without a doubt! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Ball Lightning Burn is often got a lot of instants and sorceries but additionally contains hyper efficient mana to damage creatures. 6 damage is generally great value when folks have 20 life.In commander you have to work a little harder to make this an effective threat. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Haywire Mite I don’t think there is a better disenchant creature than this one. Yeah it can only hit non-creatures but that’s what is needed in most instances anyway. It exiles, it takes only one to activate, and as a bonus it gives you life. Thank you little bug bot. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Soul Snare You activated my trap card! In commander defending planeswalkers is an endless chore. With this you can threaten a consequence for threatening you. It’s also a low manaI investment and is fairly easy to recur. It’s been power crept but it’s still fun! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Gorilla Shaman Fast mana hates to see her coming. Sol Ring is unlikely to get banned but you can punish every single ring on the table and those pesky moxen. Monkey see, monkey break. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Executioner's Capsule Terror in a bottle is such a fun effect. Commander as a social game means telegraphed removal still has a lot of influence. Folks have to decide if they want to hold back or risk getting blown out! A small investment to tilt the table. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Brittle Effigy Colorless cards often show the raw cost of effects by letting you do almost anything but with deep mana efficiency. The initial investment of 1 however means you can threaten the Voltron player and make yourself a much less attractive target. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Homura, Human Ascendant/Homura's Essence Of course you want your entire board to turn into dragons and all you have to do is kill a single 4/4 monk. With so many ways to cheat a creature onto the battlefield and kill it six mana is nothing. Use Homura to take to the sky. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Dramatic Finale Token anthems are critically important but few are their own token engines as well. Even four 3/2 inklings is a considerable concern and that’s a platry number to create. Quickly you will find yourself out numbered and a smear on the stage. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: All-Out Assault 5 mana for an additional combat step is very reasonable but combined with a deathtouch anthem is great value. Plus how wild is flickering an enchantment and getting an additional combat step right away? Madness. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Gruul War Chant The magic of Red/Green is bringing great violence to many houses but it’s annoying when folks have chumps to block with. If everyone needs two blockers it becomes incredibly frustrating. Plus one can’t commit too many attackers less you be left open! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Death Pit Offering What’s an Anthem worth to you? Your entire board? If your deck cares about dies triggers it might be! +2/+2 is nothing to sneeze at and with effects like Living Death you can bring all your creatures back, scarier then ever! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Out of the Tombs As stated by @strixhavendropout.bsky.social there really isn’t a more efficient self mill than this card. It’s so innocuous but by the 4th upkeep 20 cards have been put into the graveyard. At that point they have 20 new ways to take out the table. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Hurricane It’s really easy to forget how dangerous Green is when it had a metric fuck ton of mana, but then @roxistence.bsky.social hits you with a 36 point Hurricane leaving them at 1 life and everyone else dead. I certainly will remember that Green Burn now. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Famished Worldsire In decks attempting to abuse lands this leviathan makes incredible value, particularly in CEDH Lumra. I might have a stifle for it but it’s pretty easy for @bill.spikefeeders.com to just ask me not to and I miss the window. Lord I’m easy… #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Dualcaster Mage It’s dumb how good this card is. Fork’s creature version is a combo machine. @carlomtg.bsky.social Was able to close out a game with this loop after making 40 Etali triggers. With that many triggers it’s just about what pieces exist. Great job! 👏 🦖 #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Insurrection I had board wiped and removed or disarmed 2 players so all that was left was @strixhavendropout.bsky.social and I THOUGHT I had them on the ropes. I made my commander gigantic to win but they stole it with this, gave it double strike and to delete me. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Endurance Pitch spells define the formats they are in and thus designing them is pretty difficult. This however feels like a powerful but defensive effect. It can prevent a win from Oracle or save you from mill. You can save yourself, but you must find a win elsewhere. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Firecat Blitz There have been a lot of reimagined fireballs but the flavor of angry kitties on fire is a fun flex. I think the flashback cost is pretty interesting as a way to devour lands in decks like Yuma and Hearthhull. Who needs lands if you already won? #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Blustersquall There are many instances where just tapping a creature is just as good as removing it. An end step cyclonic rift can win the game, but tapping all opposing creatures for your alpha strike works just as well for only 4. It can also be a fog in a pinch! #mtg

My loot of signatures from @facetofacegames.bsky.social Command Fest Toronto. @ninovecia.bsky.social thanks for letting me bug you all con, @kimsokol.bsky.social for being an absolute charmer and @zaraalfonso.bsky.social for making sure I waited enough to avoid smudging. You are all fantastic!

In some of my Magic Communities the Zeta drop has reopened the wounds on 1917 sculpture “Fountain” by Duchamp. An ontological debate for the ages.

Magic Card of the Day: Steel Seraph It’s the concept of angel. Blueprints, of a network of some of the best keywords. And lucky for us it is willing to share. At 3 mana you can pick one for your best thing and begin punching. Best defense is offense and all that. :3 #mtg

The rat boy waits for attention. At the airport, AMA.

Magic Card of the Day: Path of Peril I’m such a slut for modal board wipes. 3 mana to clear blockers, 6 mana to clean house. With the number of tokens and stuff folks multiple and scatter on the floor it’s nice to have a way to sweep them away ! 🧹🧹 🧹💀 #mtg

Had a great time at @facetofacegames.bsky.social command fest! Going home with magical inspiration and a spirit ready to play great games in the future!