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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 |
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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.
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 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"?
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.
Changed ultimate.
With the +1 you should be able to just say "cost 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.
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.