Journey Into Nyx: "How many cats do you need?", asks two Ajanis

First of all, let us imagine that this rule did not exist for this situation:

"7/1/2013 If a player controls two or more planeswalkers that share a planeswalker type, that player chooses one of them and the rest are put into their owner's graveyards as a state-based action."

Ajani, Mentor of Heroes has just been released, and everyone is just going bonkers at the ultimate ability that gives you an additional 100 life points. So, aside from a combo with Felidar Sovereign, what else can you do with it? How about teaming up with Ajani, Caller of the Pride for more cats than you can handle? Well, since the latest Ajani is a G/W card, you're probably either using Bant or Selesnya, so might as well have Doubling Season in play. Remember to have both Caller of the Pride and Mentor of Heroes in play. Activate the ultimate ability of the latter first, giving you an 100 life points. Next, activate that of the former, which would normally give you at least a hundred cats. However, with Doubling Season in play, it becomes at least two hundred 2/2 cats. How catastrophic.

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Journey Into Nyx: Ajani, Mentor of Heroes gives you 100 life points

Remember the days of Lorwyn when Ajani Goldmane entered the scene? It was a good card to have when you were using Kithkin, with all the Wizened Cenn and Goldmeadow Stalwarts providing early aggression. Then came Ajani Vengeant and Caller of the Pride for Boros and for monowhite, respectively. Today, Wizards of the Coast has unveiled the Green/White version called Ajani, Mentor of Heroes which looks really fun to play despite not looking like an immediate staple in tournament play or even in the Standard format. The last ability alone is very fun to use, regardless if you were about to lose or not, as an additional 100 life points would be a tiring obstacle for weenie or cheese decks. Moreover, Felidar Sovereign is very glad for the arrival of GW Ajani.

With the current standard decks, what ability could be proven useful? Well, the first ability does not activate heroic abilities because heroic is only triggered by spells, the second one, however is basically a nifty card advantage tool for G/W decks, not to mention it can get that much needed creature or enchantment aura for a needed activation of a card with constellation. As for a deck that would welcome Mentor of Heroes, would Bant Superfriends accept him? What do you guys think?

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