As the lead developer (now known as final designer) of the team for both Conflux and Worldwake , we had accomplished this once before when we created Nicol Bolos, Planeswalker in Conflux , but unlike Nicol Bolas, this would be the second Jace card printed, which had unique challenges of its own
I think they just like the shorts that they do, and some of them have no dialog at all, right
In the case of the former, its because the best choices vary not only by color identity, but often by specific deck building limitations: Seismic Assault and many other red effects want you to play an extra-high land count, while a black deck with reanimation and Tortured Existence obviously cares about discarding creatures
There is the the combo direction as well which links this archetype up to things like the Birthing Pod creature combo decks
Hopefully, well learn more as that June 13th release date approaches