Obviously, any Kess build will have a lot of similarities, and cards like Ponder and Brainstorm are very, very common
You rarely recover from many of these destruction moves, as only one card, the aforementioned Song of Inspiration, allows you to bring creatures back from the graveyard
Jace shines best at the head of a competitive High Tide Storm deck, where Jace can flashback key combo pieces like High Tide to generate huge mana and close out the game with a giant Temporal Fissure or Brain Freeze
This alone makes Rith fairly juicy, but not quite worthy of five mana in three colors
1 Shroofus Sproutsire Sapling Supremacy Kindred decks got a huge boost in power with the release of Foundations Jumpstart, and none so much as Saprolings did
You need to cast five spells to turn it into a creature, or have the counters moved in other ways