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CardName: Sorin's Mutilation Cost: B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Mutilate target nonblack creature. (Put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. Whenever it attacks or blocks, its controller loses life equal to its power.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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I made a common to put the reminder text on, as that presumably wouldn't exist at mythic (see Sorin Rampant)
Intriguing ability. I like it, but I fear there might be memory issues. In particular, this couldn't go in a block where the principal creature counter type is +1/+1 counters, but if the principal creature counter type is -1/-1 counters then it's confusing which creatures have been Mutilated and which have merely been Scarred.
Yeah, you're right.
It fits, because it's doing something horrible to the creatures, but technically leaving them alive, hence this costed as slightly below Doom Blade.
But yes, there's no good way round the memory issue. (You could have mutilation tokens like poison tokens that go on the creatures, but I don't think there's enough gameplay variety to justify that level of effort. Alternatively, reconcept the mechanic to grant a static ability to all creatures with -1/-1 counters, but that (i) probably doesn't deserve a keyword and (ii) would be too harsh in a -1/-1 counter set.)