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Jace's Erasure

Enchantment

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Magic 2011
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#7669
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Jace's Erasure card art
Jace's Erasure turns every card you draw into a free mill trigger, and in decks that draw dozens of cards per turn cycle it becomes a legitimate win condition for two mana. Arjun, the Shifting Flame redraws its entire hand on every spell cast, which means a single active Jace's Erasure can mill a table out in one combat step; Grolnok, the Omnivore decks run it as a redundant mill piece that converts frog-fueled draw into pressure.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Arjun, the Shifting Flame

Arjun, the Shifting Flame

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Arjun, the Shifting Flame replaces its hand on every spell cast, so Jace's Erasure translates each of those mass-draw triggers directly into opponent mill — a single turn with a few spells can strip fifteen or twenty cards from each player at the table.

02
Grolnok, the Omnivore

Grolnok, the Omnivore

20.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Grolnok, the Omnivore self-mills aggressively and rewards exiling cards from graveyards, so Jace's Erasure adds a second axis by converting the incidental draw that comes with croaking counters into mill pressure against opponents.

03
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

16.6% of decks · synergy 0.14

Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, so each draw off Jace's Erasure becomes two cards milled instead of one — in any draw-heavy blue shell, that doubling effect makes the enchantment punch well above its mana cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Jace's Erasure sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Vintage, or Pauper — those formats move too fast for a two-mana enchantment that mills one at a time to matter, and dedicated mill strategies in those formats have access to far more efficient tools. Commander is where Jace's Erasure actually lives: multiplayer means the mill total scales against multiple libraries simultaneously, and the high-draw commanders that reach for it can generate enough triggers to close games without any additional setup. It's legal in Oathbreaker as well, where a Jace planeswalker signature spell shell could generate real value, though that format's smaller libraries make the math more forgiving.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Jace's Erasure is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought in a trade binder rather than a deliberate purchase. It won't appreciate; it's a niche enchantment with a narrow home, and supply is high enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new commander dramatically spikes demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.