Red increasingly cares about discarding cards and casting spells from exile, making this a potent draw engine with cards like Inti, Seneschal of the Sun and Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
It simply makes the game hurt
The team was seeing companion decks have too high win rates, and they wanted to work on making sure things werent too repetitive
We had designed an enchantment set, but the set was part of a series of stories from the Artifacts Cycle, had a set symbol of a gear, and focused on the artificer Urza
But the last 15 years haven't been especially kind to Jace, with its downfall being sealed when it was finally unbanned in Modern only to see essentially zero play in the format
Skullclamp was banned in its own Standard back in 2004, along with concurrent Block Constructed, and it was on the preliminary banlist when Modern premiered back in 2011