Jace, Multiverse Architect leads a four-color control deck that keeps its planeswalker safe and filters cards with the +1, then cashes in tokens and other cheap creatures with the −3 or mass polymorph effects. Each flip reveals cards until a creature or planeswalker appears, so the only creatures in the deck are a handful of huge payoffs: demons, angels, praetors and Toxrill. Counterspells, spot removal and board wipes hold the table while the noncreature spells feed token makers and card draw engines. How it wins: The deck turns a token or a cheap body into a game-ending threat like Archon of Cruelty, Archfiend of Despair, Toxrill, Avacyn or Jin-Gitaxias, then attacks in the air behind wipes and counterspells. Key roles: - Creature cheating: Jace, Multiverse Architect's −3, the mass exile-and-reveal spells and the land-triggered reveal swap expendable bodies for whichever big creature sits next in the library, all at once in the mass versions. (Mass Polymorph, Synthetic Destiny, Proteus Staff) - Fodder tokens: Instant-speed and X-cost token spells and upkeep token makers provide cheap bodies to flip into fatties, especially at a large scale with the mass polymorph effects. (Secure the Wastes, Grand Crescendo, Lingering Souls) - Top-end payoffs: The few creatures in the deck are bombs that drain, strip resources, shrink the board or draw huge numbers of cards, so every reveal hits a threat. (Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur) - Spell-cast engines: Since nearly every card is a noncreature spell, cheap cantrips and interaction turn into sharks, extra draws and story counters, and those sharks become more polymorph fodder. (Shark Typhoon, Whirlwind of Thought, Staff of the Storyteller) - Board control: One-sided wipes like the X token sweepers leave fodder behind after clearing the board, while counters and exile removal protect the planeswalker and the payoffs. (Martial Coup, White Sun's Twilight, Disallow) - Card selection: Cantrips, looting and the +1 sculpt hands and set the library top, while self-protection spells keep the board indestructible through its own sweepers. (Brainstorm, Fatehold Charm, Flawless Maneuver)

Jace, Multiverse Architect decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Archfiend of Despair
• Archon of Cruelty
• Austere Command
• Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• Azorius Signet
• Battlefield Forge
• Brainstorm
• Brainsurge
• Caves of Koilos
• Chromatic Lantern
• Clifftop Retreat
• Command Tower
• Contaminated Landscape
• Counterspell
• Currency Converter
• Despark
• Dig Through Time
• Dimir Signet
• Disallow
• Dovin's Veto
• Dreadhorde Invasion
• Drowned Catacomb
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• Exotic Orchard
• Fabled Passage
• Fact or Fiction
• Faithless Looting
• Farewell
• Fatehold Annex
• Fatehold Charm
• Fellwar Stone
• Fetid Heath
• Flawless Maneuver
• Generous Gift
• Glacial Fortress
• Grand Crescendo
• 3× Island
• Isolated Chapel
• Izzet Signet
• Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• Kher Keep
• Lingering Souls
• Martial Coup
• Mass Polymorph
• 2× Mountain
• Mystic Gate
• Negate
• Nissa, Leyline Tamer
• Occult Epiphany
• Opt
• Path of Ancestry
• Path to Exile
• Perilous Landscape
• 2× Plains
• Ponder
• Prairie Stream
• Preordain
• Proteus Staff
• Radiant Summit
• Rakdos Signet
• Reflecting Pool
• Restless Anchorage
• Restless Spire
• Secure the Wastes
• Serra's Emissary
• Shark Typhoon
• Shivan Reef
• Skrelv's Hive
• Sol Ring
• Staff of the Storyteller
• Stingerquill Annex
• Stroke of Midnight
• Sulfur Falls
• Sulfurous Springs
• Sunfall
• Sunken Ruins
• 2× Swamp
• Swan Song
• Swords to Plowshares
• Synthetic Destiny
• Talisman of Creativity
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Talisman of Progress
• Toxrill, the Corrosive
• Turbulent Crater
• Turbulent Shore
• Turbulent Wetlands
• Unbreakable Formation
• Underground River
• Whirlwind of Thought
• White Sun's Twilight
• Windcrag Siege