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Eh, it's not the only uncard I have there... Though I don't this is too crazy of an effect since the cards stop being tokens when they stop being on the field
Oh, look. It's a silver-bordered card!
Well, maybe. A lot of the things that matter about tokens happen to tings not on the battlefield, so this might work, but people will really much expect things to work differently. We associate things with tokens that this won't provide (e. g. ceasing to exist after leaving the battlefield).
So this is, roughly, to be cast in response to a wrath effect - either yours or your opponents, and it lets you get off a single big spell?
Or you can use it much earlier in the game to get a mana or two back for a smaller spell. Which is less flashy, but probably actually more efficient.
That it lets you get off-colour mana is weird. Most cost reducers only give you one colour - so that cards that cost double coloured-mana remain hard to splash. This gives an interesting route to cast kind of ridiculous things.
Definitely worth a try.
As for keywording it? Interesting choice of word - but more to the point, I'm hard pressed to find many effects small enough that it's safe to copy once for every creature that dies. "Gain 1 life" "Deal one damage" "You may pay
to steal one life"
The most amusing one I can find is "It's controller may return it from the graveyard to play" for pseudo regenration.
I guess there's also the possibility for really big effects once you get to 7-8 mana for the initial casting.
You don't need to include
, since reducing a card by a colored mana can also apply to the generic cost. Right now this is a 5c color identity, but I think you could write it as "Choose a mana type. The next spell you cast this turn costs one mana less of the chosen type. (The mana types are ...)" Then the card has a colorless identity and can go in any commander deck
Heavily modified; it's essentially a different card altogether