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Balance (Alpha Edition) ~$16,100 CGC 9.5 Gem Mint Why It's Valuable: A game-swinging "board wipe" that equalizes creatures, lands, and cards

This can be great if you have a lot of bigger Creatures, then you can make this card feel closer to Plague Wind than a typical board wipe

Blue has it unconditionally, black lets you trade life for it, green often bases it on your creatures, and red has you discard cards in exchange for a draw, but white has almost nothing

2023-10-13 A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way

It shines in counter-focused shells with proliferate support

Sam Pardee, a former Pod player, was a big advocate of the deck shell, taking the more aggressive elements of the post-Rhino Pod decks and recasting them in a shell without Pod itself