Hey R&D Ajani should be 3GW!!
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Posted on March 30, 2014, 8:49 p.m. by Stein_
I don't know how many of you are pumped for Ajani, but I have pretty high hopes for him. First, I hope he is casted as a 3GW with 4 Loyalty. The reason I say this, is there aren't too many, at least in my opinion, good or rarely any 5 drop slots for Bant at the moment, with turns being Kiora, the Crashing Wave , 5spot, Elspeth, Sun's Champion . If him and Elspeth work together, he would fit that slot that not only in my Bant Control list, but alot of Bant midrange or control decks..
As for his abilities, I couldn't really get into that. +1 Im not sure as to what's fair there, but his -3 I would like something similar to Harmonize , drawing three would be alot of fun. For him being GW, I feel like that could be pretty fair.
What are your takes on Ajani, and why?
If its GW ajani I would assume either gain a certain amount of life for +1 or some token making ability. - 3 isnt bad but I also like a populate effect and maybe a -7 during your upkeep make a 5/5 cat token and populate
March 30, 2014 8:59 p.m.
@mmdw34 Populate is a mechanic from Return to Ravnica. It won't be introduced to JOU and Ajani has no real make tokens thing.
March 30, 2014 9:13 p.m.
vampirelazarus says... #5
Also, a loyalty ability that does something during your upkeep would require some thing along the lines of "During your next upkeep..." (since you cant use the abilities during your upkeep) which creates confusion. Sure its just one small thing, but thats one small thing on top of everything else going on in a game of magic.
March 30, 2014 10:03 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #6
For a GW 5 drop Ajani, Here's what I would make:
4 Loyalty
+1 | Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures where X is equal to Ajani's Loyalty.
-3 | Target permanent gains Hexproof or Indestructible.
-8 | For each creature, put a token onto the battlefield that is a copy of that creature.
Now, this is just what I would do. I think that it matches the flavor of Theros, and Elspeth / Ajani's struggle with Xenagod. I'm not even convinced that it will be a GW iteration, though having 2 white PWs in a block is a bit strange. I guess only time will tell with this one.
March 30, 2014 10:28 p.m.
I think that mmdw34 was trying to suggest an emblem that could produce tokens and populate. The populate mechanic wouldn't work with Journey Into Nyx, but it's pretty easy to accept as paraphrasing.
March 30, 2014 10:39 p.m.
So wait is ajani a confirmed thing? I thought that was all rumor based off of art seen in the arcs and stuff?
March 30, 2014 10:46 p.m.
Bant Planeswalkers?
Another walker in their colors?
Skrew that, C'mon Izzet Dack Fayden!
I'm all for a GW walker but with how control heavy my meta is I hope not for the rest of Theros Standard.
If not Dack at least make it a straight up Naya Ajani, or other non-UW tri-color walker.
March 30, 2014 11:12 p.m.
I'll be punching easy to hurt places, if a white card gets repeatable card draw in chunks.
March 31, 2014 12:38 a.m.
if I want playing bant and I turn 4 a kiora, id want to turn 5 Elspeth not play a 5 drop
March 31, 2014 10:16 a.m.
Yeah man, I called it! im extremely happy, and have built the midrange deck, with him already proxied in. So far he has been quite insane, in my opinion. His abilities are deff on par for what I was somewhat hoping, the first one with counters is sweet against an aggressive strategy, where the other is good against GR Monsters, etc, and control. Mono black can eat me alive, so im still working with that.
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Epochalyptik says... #2
Moved to S&R.
March 30, 2014 8:51 p.m.