Jace, the Perfected Mind
Legendary Planeswalker — Jace
Compleated (
can be paid with 
or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0.
−2: Target player mills three cards. Then if a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, you draw three cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
−X: Target player mills three times X cards.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5453
Jace, the Perfected Mind puts opponents on a fast clock — its minus ability mills half a player's library in one activation, and its ultimate ends the game on the spot. The five-mana cost is steep, but in any deck helmed by Bruvac the Grandiloquent, that mill count doubles and the game ends before Jace ever needs a second turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent's replacement effect doubles every mill trigger, which means Jace, the Perfected Mind's minus activation doesn't mill half a library — it mills the whole thing. This is the deck where Jace is an auto-include.
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner rewards stacking mill pressure from multiple angles, and Jace, the Perfected Mind provides both incremental loyalty-tick milling and a one-shot kill ultimate to close games the Mindskinner has already cracked open.
Captain N'ghathrod
Captain N'ghathrod wants opponents' libraries thin and graveyards full, and Jace, the Perfected Mind delivers both while threatening a game-ending ultimate if left unanswered.
Lord Xander, the Collector
Lord Xander, the Collector already forces discard and sacrifice, and pairing that resource denial with Jace, the Perfected Mind's mill creates a multi-axis pressure package that's hard to outrun.
Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception is the definitive tap-to-mill commander, and Jace, the Perfected Mind slots in as a standalone threat that doesn't require creatures — giving the deck a win condition that survives a board wipe.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Jace, the Perfected Mind is a legitimate win condition in dedicated mill builds rather than a value piece you slot in generically — the five-mana investment only pays off when the deck is built to close games through library depletion. In Pioneer and Modern, it's fringe at best; five mana for a planeswalker that doesn't immediately stabilize the board is too slow against the format's faster clocks, and dedicated mill decks in those formats have cheaper, more consistent options. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to make Jace, the Perfected Mind look underpowered by comparison, so it doesn't see serious play there either. Oathbreaker is arguably its second-best home, where it can serve as the planeswalker commander in a mill shell with full combo support.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.