Changes to the planeswalker uniqueness rule

[Esper3k]

While what you say is true, I don't understand why there needs to be an even playing field if one player went to great lengths in resolving Jace while the other player mostly ignored what was happening in the game, hit his 4 land drops due to statistical inevitability, then cast Jace.

If they ignored your Jace, that's fine - you still have all of your own preparations in order to stop their Jace in addition to having landed yours first.

I don't understand why an opponent resolving Jace won't still be a point of contention, though. Like, in the mirror people are just going to turn into Oprah and go "YOU get a Jace! I get a Jace! YOU and YOU and YOU get a Jace!"

So wait, because you can no longer blow up an opponent's JTMS with your own, you're going to let it just resolve? If anything the presence of a JTMS should be an even more significant issue since you're down an answer.

What am I not getting about this. If you're "not caring" about an opponent's Jace just because you can play one too, that sounds like you don't care if an opponent can Brainstorm for free every turn, which sounds like a good way to lose more games than you should.

Yeah, exactly. I actually like it more because it's no longer all important to land your Jace first and get a Brainstorm out of it. Now, if you land yours second, you can still match your opponent on card advantage yet they still get some advantage for getting theirs down first.

It actually makes Jace a little easier to deal with, imo because now you can have your own Jace instead of being forced to use it as a Vindicate but they end up still getting up a card on you.

How exactly is it diminished though? They're still playing Jace, while not quite answer-or-die that turn, will need to be dealt with quickly.

They way you put it, there were 3 things that would answer Jace: counters, evasive creatures, and your own Jace.
Now that list is reduced to just 2.

I see it as MORE tension building to 4 mana, get that Force ready, prime that Tar Pit, whatever. After they plop down their Jace and storm, you follow by mirroring them, still doesn't answer their Jace. It's still there, doing what it does so infamously.

Seems like it will be with out a doubt different, but less? I'm not so sure.

Your own Jace still answers their Jace - it actually answers it better now since you can actually match them on card advantage instead of them getting card advantage on you like they currently do if you play your Jace to Planeswalker Rule them.