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Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani Compleated ( {G/W/P} can be paid with {G} , {W} , or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
Ajani, Sleeper Agent is a legendary planeswalker card from the Dominaria United set. It has abilities that let you reveal, draw, and poison your opponents with creatures or planeswalkers.
Rulings. A hybrid Phyrexian mana symbol is counted the same way as a normal mana symbol when determining the mana value of a card. Specifically, Ajani's mana value is always 4, even if you pay and 2 life to cast him. Phyrexian is not a color nor a type of mana, and players cannot add Phyrexian mana.
Great sleeper agent design, reads like a perfectly normal Ajani card until the ult when BOOM phyrexian
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Ajani Goldmane (Phyrexian: DFaUnEED, IPA: [ʔəʤɒniʔ]) is a leonin planeswalker from Naya, Alara. He was part of the Gatewatch, but was later compleated by the phyrexians into becoming a sleeper agent. At the end of New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse, he was un-compleated.
Ajani is a large one-eyed albino cat warrior, torn between his leonin ferocity and his sense of justice. He believes the strong should protect the weak, and that tyrants must be toppled at all costs. He cares for his allies, taking a mentor-like role for them, and doing his best to help them through their time of trouble.
He is a large figure, standing 6'6" or 6'3" tall and weighing 250 lbs. He has strong feline face and white fur covering his entire body. His right eye is pale blue, and a scar runs through his left eye socket.
Ajani's beliefs have evolved over the years. When his spark first manifested (over the loss of his brother), he believed that channeling his rage toward avenging his fallen loved one was the correct path. He let his seething rage drive him forward, ignoring how his actions affected those around him. However, spending time with Elspeth morphed these views and, ultimately with her death, showed him that his fury wasn't the correct path to inner peace.
His specialty is magic of the purification of body and soul: spells that heal and strengthen his allies, and spells that evoke the inner, spiritual essence of others.
Mortal life
Ajani was born as an albino Nacatl, a stigma among his people described as "white as death," and so spent much of his youth as an outcast. At some point, he lost his left eye to the dangers of Naya. It is unknown what happened to Ajani's parents, but it appears the only one to care for him was his older brother Jazal. Jazal gained a great deal of prestige among his peers despite Ajani's status among the pride, and soon Jazal rose to kha of the Qasal Valley pride. Jazal accepted the position in hopes that Ajani would be accepted and honored as he had been. However, Ajani was barely tolerated, a fact that Ajani eventually came to accept as appropriate treatment. However, Ajani had at least one friend, the tribe shaman Zaliki. Ajani was unique among his kin, not only for his bone-white fur but also due to his unique abilities to manipulate the various magics of the soul. He could see deep into other beings, and see the very essence of their spirits. He could call that essence forth and manifest it in a multitude of ways and, despite his pariah status, he was considered the best healer in his tribe. This earned him none of the prestige that Jazal thought it should, but Ajani once more just accepted that as his self-worth to keep trouble from his brother. As the Festival of Marisi, the annual celebration of the Breaking of the Coil neared, Ajani was attacked by a group of humans, an unusual event in itself, but foreboding as Jazal discovered that they had been sent after Ajani himself, and not merely the Nacatl. Ajani sought to repay his brother for his heroic defense and began a hunt for the feast celebration. Secretly he was hoping to gain the pride's respect, but when he brought down a Godsire his kill was stolen by the worst of his persecutors, Tenoch. Ajani was savagely beaten by the rival leonin, a punishment that escalated after the white cat clumsily revealed his ability to see into the souls of others. He was left to drag himself back to the feast, keeping his peace for the sake of his brother and the tribe. That night, after the revelries had died down, a dark figure stole through the sleeping pride. They dropped a vessel of dark magic into the fire and shades burst forth to attack the tribe. During the attack, Jazal was slain in his lair with his black axe, the dark twin to Ajani's own. Gripping Jazal's body, Ajani heard Jazal's voice and when he opened his eye, he was no longer on Naya.
Alara unbroken
Ajani found himself on Jund where he met Sarkhan Vol, who protected him from the dragon Karrthus and listened to the neophyte walker recount his tale. Sarkhan advised him to take hold of his anger and use it, to use his newfound gift as a walker to track down his brother's murderer and showed him how to planeswalk back to Naya. He found himself wandering the Qasali Valley, eventually finding his way to the ruins of Antali where he encountered a strange apparition that set him on his quest for vengeance. Back in Jazal's lair, he found the remnants of his brother's axe. He used the other axe head to create a new weapon that symbolized his plans for revenge. Of Jazal's body, there was no trace aside from the blood scattered all across the floor. He found what had become of Jazal in the pride center, where Jazal had been cremated. He spread Jazal's ashes across his body, and stalked off to confront Tenoch, suspecting him responsible for a mysterious object found in the fire. He found Tenoch overlooking a cliff and after a brief argument, in which Tenoch admitted he respected Ajani, Ajani threatened the other Nacatl by dangling him over the cliff edge. As Ajani let go, Tenoch dragged him over the ledge. Tenoch's clothing snagged on the cliff, and although Ajani grabbed hold of his foot, the rival leonin dislodged him. Taking serious injuries in the fall, and with no other option, he vanished into the Blind Eternities. Ajani woke up in the care of Elspeth Tirel on Bant. After two weeks and the ministrations of the Bant balmgivers, Ajani left after warning Elspeth of the coming conflict. When he returned to Naya, he confronted Tenoch's mother, who revealed that Marisi had something to do with the attack on the pride. While confronting the legendary hero, they were interrupted by Mayael and Marisi pointed Ajani to seek the dragon Nicol Bolas. Knowing of only one place to find dragons, Ajani began a walk to Jund... only to find that Jund no longer existed. The Conflux had begun. After a rough landing, Ajani found himself in the presence of Kresh and Clan Nel Toth who swore to help Ajani find his vengeance and slay the dragon. A lengthy sojourn took them to the borders of Grixis where Kresh settled his grudge against Rakka-Mar, though it was Ajani who finished her off with a bolt of rage. To Ajani's surprise, Zaliki and Mayael found him on the edge of Grixis and looked to him to lead them against a horde of dragons led by Sarkhan Vol. During this important crux, Ajani finally found Jazal's murderer. Zaliki was the one responsible for his brother's death but had been manipulated into doing so by Marisi. As Marisi had been slain by Zaliki, Ajani's quest for revenge would go unanswered, except that Bolas chose that moment to confront the assembled armies. In front of all the armies of Naya and Jund, Bolas consumed the mana of the Maelstrom, and in a desperate attempt to stop Bolas, Ajani severed everyone's mana bonds and absorbed the last tiny bit of the Maelstrom that Bolas hadn't. Using that power, he called up an effigy of Bolas's soul and used it to banish Bolas from Alara. In the aftermath of the conflux wars, Ajani was offered the position of Kha and the respect of his entire pride, the one thing he had desired above all else. He was not the same being that he had been through and chose to leave Naya instead, entrusting Zaliki with the responsibilities of being the Kha. Ever after, Ajani was never left out of Bolas's plans. He'd devise special stratagems to occupy the leonin while Bolas's other schemes progressed. The battle during the conflux of Alara had inspired a hesitancy in Bolas that he had for few others.
Ajani's debt
Sometime after the conflux, Ajani once again sought out Elspeth, starting with those who last saw her. He finally found the errant knight in the gladiator pits of Urborg facing off against another heavily armored planeswalker. Ajani stopped Elspeth from delivering a death blow when she saw a symbol on the other walker's arm. He escorted her back to her residence and beseeched her to return, that she could do more good on Alara than fighting for the money in the pits, treating herself so badly. She rebuked his offer, stating that it was pointless and that eventually, Grixis would overrun Bant's golden plains, that Bant itself was already gone. Dismayed, Ajani acquiesced to her refusal, stating simply that her lack of hope saddened him. As a final kindness, before his departure, Ajani returned Elspeth's armor, which she had left on Bant.
Aftermath of the War of Spark
Sometime later, Ajani traveled to Kaladesh to talk to Chandra and thank her for saving some people on his plane from monsters. He tried to console her before having to leave the girl once more. Ajani was met by Chandra on Alara after her quest for self-discovery came to an end. Lending his ever-healing aid, he talked to her about the pain he felt after losing his brother. Thanks to his wisdom, Chandra decided to return to her mother and apologize to her. Together, they planeswalked to Kaladesh, only to appear in the Consul's trashed home before Tibalt, who had Chandra's mother bound beside him. Realizing that he couldn't compete with both Chandra and Ajani on their home turf, Tibalt fled to Innistrad. Chandra and Ajani followed in pursuit and managed to overpower him.
•Ajani uses an axe made by combining the head of his axe with the head of his brother Jazal's axe. After his compleation, the axe was modified to resemble Elesh Norn's faceplate.
•After Elspeth's death, Ajani kept his friend's cloak as a way of honoring her. After becoming compleated, Ajani gave the cloak to Tezzeret.
•Angrath (non-canon)
•Arlinn Kord (non-canon)
•Basri Ket (non-canon)
•Chandra Nalaar
•Elspeth Tirel
•Garruk (non-canon)
•Alara
•Arcavios (non-canon)
•Dominaria
•Capenna
•Eldraine (non-canon)
•Innistrad
Represented in:
•Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
•Ajani, Caller of the Pride
•Ajani Goldmane
•Ajani, Inspiring Leader
•Ajani, Mentor of Heroes
Nov 22, 2023 · Ajani hasn't always had an easy run of things, and Ciel Collins is here to chronicle the worst five things that ever happened to the big cat.
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