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CardName: Laphen, First Speaker Cost: rwu Type: Legendary Creature - Bird Advisor Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Flying You may spend mana as though it was mana of any color to cast creature spells with flying. {2}{r}{w}{u}, {t}: Draw a card for each creature with flying you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Set Rare

Laphen, First Speaker
{r}{w}{u}
 
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Legendary Creature – Bird Advisor
Flying
You may spend mana as though it was mana of any color to cast creature spells with flying.
{2}{r}{w}{u}, {t}: Draw a card for each creature with flying you control.
3/3
Created on 26 Mar 2014 by Link

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2014-03-26 05:50:22: Link created and commented on the card Laphen, First Speaker

Tap ability could probably go. I'm more interested in the Kentaro, the Smiling Cat ability.

I like both of these effects. I don't mind much whether they're on the same card or separate cards :)

I'd actually be in favour of the Kentaro ability being on a 2-colour card not a 3-colour one, to make it more useful.

Good point. I had this in {w}{g}, and then I realized people would probably want to play it as an EDH general, and that there aren't many flying green creatures. I also realized the ability would be more useful in 3-color EDH than 2-color, which is funny, because it would be more useful as a 2-color creature in normal Magic.

Oh, heh, good point.

Hmm, if this block was including hybrid that'd be an argument for giving this guy a hybrid cost...

Perhaps this guy's ability could apply to himself? "You may spend mana as though it were mana of any colour to cast ~"?

I definitely like the concept of applying the ability to the creature itself, it makes it more immediately exciting, but as-is, that would just be equivalent to making it cost 3.

Could it be an more Aer-specific "any colour" ability, eg. something that somehow works if you have three colours of mana, but it doesn't matter which three? That embraces multicolour-ness, although it still has the problem that the mana cost written on the card isn't really accurate.

May I suggest "~ is all colors."?

That would give you the flexibility to make it cost CD, but also allow for a wider range of choices in Commander...

I feel like we're overcomplicating this now.

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