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CardName: Riddle of Snakes Cost: 5G Type: Instant - Trap Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two nonland cards with a converted mana cost of four or less. You may cast them without paying their mana cost. Shuffle your library, then, if an opponent cast a blue or black spell this turn, put Riddle of Snakes into your library third from the top. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Workbench Rare
Riddle of Snakes
  Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two nonland cards with a converted mana cost of four or less. You may cast them without paying their mana cost. Shuffle your library, then, if an opponent cast a blue or black spell this turn, put Riddle of Snakes into your library third from the top.
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Random Generator gave me Ricochet Trap and Enigma Sphinx. Wow. That is busy. I couldn't fit it all in my head at the same time, so I figured I'd go make the comments first and splay it all out. The card involves:
That is a pile of things. I'm pretty sure that I can't keep half of them. It also comes with two other annoying asides.
Aside 1: I really like cascade as a mechanic. This is the first time it appeared, and it is coming in a bit late to the party. Mashup is supposed to hit 500, then reevalute itself, to make it a set, but I've been guiding it a tad all the while. If I keep cascade as a keyword mechanic on this card, it will probably end up tossed, since there's a good chance that none of the other cards will have cascade as a keyword mechanic. If I spell cascade out... it will look a bit silly... and it will take up a large amount of the complexity of this card. Just saying.
Aside 2: I really like traps, too. Protect the Master got the trap type and mechanic, even though neither of the base cards were traps. I'd prefer to keep the trap part, but, you know, space.
I'm scratching my head... I don't know if I made a good card, or just a card that I would like. I also find it funny that somehow this card ended up in the one color of mana not represented by the other two cards.
Originally, since I couldn't name it after a Sphinx in green, I named this "Ophidian Enigma". Then I imagined what Conan, the Barbarian would have called this. "Riddle of Snakes" makes me snicker, though, I suspect, again, that I am doing things that make me smile, and that other people won't appreciate.
Humm. I can't help but feel this is the capstone of some hideous strategy where you only have two things that cost 4 or less. Which probably means it deserves its high cost.
The third from the top thing just feels like a tack-on here, for some reason. I don't know why it feels more natural for a sphinx than a green instant though.
I don't see what this has to do with Ricochet Trap, other than that it's a Trap. It doesn't have the trap mechanic, though. It seems to have too much going on at once.
Also, there should be a paragraph break after "shuffle your library."
Noted and noted. I was messing with the trap mechanic. I don't think you always need to reduce the mana cost to make cards traps. That being said, unless I built a block mechanic around this, people are bound to tell me I'm wrong. I knew this would be tough when I first saw the mashup.
I think I'll come back and try another card completely wholesale tomorrow. Probably a giant Sphinx the second time around.
I agree the name is great. I quite like the way you've put this together atm, though I agree it's probably still a little complicated.