Way of the Paradox
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment
- Set
- Reality Fracture #267 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.33 USD
When Way of the Paradox enters, empower Jace 5. (Put five 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.")
Whenever you activate a loyalty ability, you gain 1 life. You may play an additional land this turn.
Way of the Paradox has 1 printing, first in Reality Fracture (2026). EDHREC ranks it #11,880 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tam, the Possibility decks (5,234 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Way of the Paradox most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tam, the Possibility: 5,234 decks
- Carth the Lion: 331 decks
- Kwia Vigorbloom: 330 decks
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 290 decks
- Kiora of Salt and Sand: 208 decks
- Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge: 185 decks
- Lord Windgrace: 78 decks
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain: 76 decks
Often played with Way of the Paradox
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.