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Jace's Projection

Creature — Wizard Illusion

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{3}{U}: Put a loyalty counter on target Jace planeswalker.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
War of the Spark
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#14885
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Jace's Projection card art
Jace's Projection enters as a copy of any Jace planeswalker you control, then grows its loyalty whenever you draw cards — a continuous engine in decks that already want to flood through their library. Arjun, the Shifting Flame turns every spell cast into a full hand replacement, which means Jace's Projection can stack loyalty absurdly fast; O'aka, Traveling Merchant rewards the same card-draw density and slots naturally alongside it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Arjun, the Shifting Flame

Arjun, the Shifting Flame

9.1% of decks · synergy 0.09

Arjun, the Shifting Flame replaces your hand every time you cast a spell, which fires Jace's Projection's loyalty trigger on virtually every action you take — the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop that can push a Jace to its ultimate within a single turn cycle.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Jace's Projection is a Commander card through and through — the planeswalker density required to copy on entry simply doesn't exist in competitive 60-card formats, and the loyalty-from-draw payoff is too slow for Modern or Legacy to care about. In Pioneer and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; neither format runs enough Jace planeswalkers at once to make the copy clause reliable, and better card-advantage pieces crowd it out entirely. Commander is the only home where Jace's Projection earns its slot: multiplayer games run longer, Jace tribal and superfriends builds stack multiple planeswalkers naturally, and the draw-based loyalty scaling becomes a genuine threat over several turns.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Jace's Projection sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk bin without a second thought. Its price reflects narrow play: it does nothing without another Jace on board, so demand stays low and there's no compelling reason for it to climb.

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