can't have slaves without somewhere to keep them.

I avoided making them 0/1 colorless creatures so that they didn't seem like crappy Eldrazi spawn, and also because I wanted to keep all of the creatures on the black continent black. It's possible your slaves are easier to deal with, though, and I do like this card.

I mentioned Nuisance Engine on the previous card, and it occurs to me that we could call these creatures 'pests' instead. We'd probably throw the word slave and slavery around a bunch, but if their type is pests, black mages might start to think of them as beneath them, which is a little funny, and kind of the point.

It could make a good way to tie all the oppressed creatures together as well. Satyr Pests, Dryad Pests, Imp Pests and whatnot could all be printed as different token creatures, or just different creatures. Then when we print a Gorgon that comes into play and sacrifices three pests, you can just throw away those worthless lesser races.

Hmm. I think I don't like "Pest" as effectively a class type on sentient races like Dryads. The tie to Nuisance Engine is fun, but "Dryad Pest" or "Satyr Pest" sounds very odd to me, like a crossbreed rather than a social status. Perhaps "Minion"?

(I appreciate it's not really the time to be making choices that inside WotC would only be made after the design team handed off the document to Creative. But Multiverse does tend to rather blend together all the steps of making a custom set.)

Sensible card, anyway. The ETB-sac means its power level is only medium and in many decks it's not very good, but I think that's fine.

I like Minion. Minion and I go way back.

Minion is fine and would have backward compatability with the various minions from previous sets which is a good thing.