Now, from a design and gameplay perspective, Jace works because every ability pushes the same control game plan instead of pulling in different directions
Effects that modify a creature's power and/or toughness, such as the ones created by Titanic Growth or a +/1+1 counter, will apply to the creature no matter when they started to take effect
It may just be a flash in the pan however, since the deck didn't beat out the competition in the Dallas Dreamhack tournament last week
This means that it works perfectly with cards that care about snow mana or having a specific number of snow permanents on top of being able to be fetched
Corpse Explosion: A selective boardwipe for 3 mana at the cost of exiling a body from your graveyard seems like good value to me
Without Ravager, Affinity would survive, although it would probably just be one deck among many