Academic Ascent
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Reality Fracture #2 (common)
- Price
- $0.12 USD
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
Empower Jace 2. (Put two loyalty counters on a Jace token you control. If you don't control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with "[−1]: Surveil 1" and "[−3]: Draw a card.")
Academic Ascent has 1 printing, first in Reality Fracture (2026). EDHREC ranks it #22,955 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mabel, Valley Hero decks (23 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Academic Ascent most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mabel, Valley Hero: 23 decks
- Feather, the Redeemed: 22 decks
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord: 19 decks
- Leori, Sparktouched Hunter: 11 decks
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion: 4 decks
- Danitha, Sword of Hope: 4 decks
- Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage: 2 decks
- Amareth, the Lustrous: 1 decks
Often played with Academic Ascent
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : To empower Jace N, if you don't control a Jace planeswalker token, create a blue Jace planeswalker token with 0 loyalty, "[−1]: Surveil 1," and "[−3]: Draw a card." Choose a Jace planeswalker token you control. Put N loyalty counters on it.
- : If you control a Jace planeswalker token, you can't choose to create a new one when you empower Jace. You have to put the loyalty counters on your existing Jace planeswalker token. In the rare case that you control multiple Jace planeswalker tokens, you'll choose one of those tokens to put the loyalty counters on.
- : Some spells and abilities that empower Jace may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't empower Jace.
- : Empower Jace won't let you put loyalty counters on nontoken Jace planeswalkers. However, if you control a Jace planeswalker token that you got another way (such as an effect that creates a token that's a copy of a permanent), empower Jace will put loyalty counters on that.