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Ajani's Aid

Enchantment2 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana

This is a tutor with a dedicated name attached, which makes it one of the more curious products of the era's experiment in "build-around-this-one-planeswalker" support cards. The whole engine exists to fetch a single specific card, Ajani, Valiant Protector, from library or graveyard and load it into your hand: not the battlefield, not a discount, just guaranteed access to a six-mana planeswalker you have to pay for separately. That redundancy is its only reason to exist, and it tells you the card was built for a constructed environment that wanted to assemble a particular threat reliably rather than draw into it. The sacrifice ability is a consolation prize bolted on so the enchantment is not a dead card when you have already found Ajani: a one-shot fog aimed at a single creature's combat damage, which keeps it from being purely a do-nothing in the late game. As design, it is a narrow tutor wearing a flavor wrapper, dependent entirely on whether the named planeswalker is worth this much setup. Outside that one pairing it has nothing to offer, which is the honest read: enchantment-based card selection that only selects one card, sold on the strength of its target rather than on its own rate.

Ajani's Aid (aer)
AER · #188rare
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Normal: $0.16
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Ajani, Valiant Protector, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Sacrifice this enchantment: Prevent all combat damage a creature of your choice would deal this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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