subbak asked: Do you think Jace wouldn't be so hated by a section of the fanbase if you hadn't made the mistake of giving him trash-talking counterspells flavor text? Or is it just all JTMS's fault?

The trash talking counterspell was a mistake. I started it when writing for Ertai back during the Weatherlight Saga. Players liked it so we kept doing it. When the planeswalkers came along, we swapped in Jace’s name because he was the blue planeswalker.

The problem is Jace never talks like that. Read all his stories, it’s not his character. So yes, a lot of this negative perspective comes from a mistake we made that we have since rectified.

Here. I’m making flavor text errata. All smart ass counterspell Jace flavor text is now made by Race, an obnoxious blue mage we haven’t focused much on. : )