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CardName: Aron Valais Cost: 2WW Type: Planeswalker - Aron Pow/Tgh: /3 Rules Text: [+1] Until end of turn, spells you cast cost {W} less to cast. [0] Until your next upkeep, creatures can't attack you or Aron unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures. [-6] You get an emblem with "You may cast the first white spell you cast each turn without paying its mana cost." Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Mythic

Aron Valais
{2}{w}{w}
 
 M 
Planeswalker – Aron
+1 Until end of turn, spells you cast cost {w} less to cast.
0 Until your next upkeep, creatures can't attack you or Aron unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.
-6 You get an emblem with "You may cast the first white spell you cast each turn without paying its mana cost."
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Updated on 12 May 2012 by Link

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2011-07-11 00:15:48: Link created the card Aron Valais
2011-07-11 00:49:43: Link edited Aron Valais

Playing with mana cost is one of my favorite effects, and I felt white was the most appropriate place for a planeswalker that did it. In addition, I love the Ghostly Prison effect.

2011-07-11 00:53:26: Link edited Aron Valais

The [0] ability should be templated like Norn's Annex:

> Until your next upkeep, creatures can't attack you or Aron unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

That is an evil ultimate, but appropriate for a mana-cost-manipulating mage. It's very stall-inducing, though, where a planeswalker's ultimate usually tries to win the game. How about an emblem with "You may cast the first spell you cast each turn without paying its mana cost"?

2011-07-11 16:49:18: Link edited Aron Valais

I'll think about the ultimate; you're right, it's definitely not a "winner." I may make it what you suggested but limit it to white spells.

2011-07-11 17:11:57: Link edited Aron Valais:

Changed ultimate.

2011-07-26 00:55:43: Link edited Aron Valais

With the +1 you should be able to just say "cost {w} less to cast" as in the rules a coloured cost reduction will reduce the colourless component of a cost if it can't reduce the colour component.

Huh. For some reason, I though that wasn't the case.

2012-05-12 03:14:13: Link edited Aron Valais

Is it wrong that the first thing I thought when I saw the ultimate was "Celestial Dawn and Death of a Thousand Stings!" I get a bit too excited by DoaTS. I love that card, and am rather happy that it's not good, since that just means I'm the only one who plays it. :)

But, yes, that ultimate is begging to be played with a solid buyback-style card (though most real cards with buyback wouldn't be appropriate, since I don't think this cuts into the additional cost. Evangelize makes a nice exception). Celestial Dawn may be a damn strong idea, anyway. Casting a free blue draw spell every turn would be nuts. Not unbalanced nuts... just nuts.

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