Jace's Machinations
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Reality Fracture #32 (rare)
- Price
- $0.69 USD
Until end of turn, you may activate loyalty abilities of Jace planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.
Empower Jace 8. (Put eight 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.")
Jace's Machinations has 3 printings, first in Reality Fracture (2026). EDHREC ranks it #11,268 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jace, Multiverse Architect decks (4,441 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Jace's Machinations most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jace, Multiverse Architect: 4,441 decks
- Tam, the Possibility: 1,998 decks
- Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound: 577 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold: 410 decks
- Kiora of Salt and Sand: 203 decks
- Uldaros Theorix: 131 decks
- Commodore Guff: 103 decks
- Leori, Sparktouched Hunter: 84 decks
Often played with Jace's Machinations
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You may still activate only one loyalty ability of each permanent you control during the turn you cast Jace's Machinations.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.