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Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Planeswalker — Jace · {1}{U} · Blue commander

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. +1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn. −3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. −9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."

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What Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Activated ability{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
• Activated ability+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
• Activated ability−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
• Activated ability−9: You get an emblem

What a Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• instants and sorceries (the walker recasts one from the graveyard)
• self-mill and looting to reach five cards (it flips)

The Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 6× Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again
• 6× Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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