Maybe you have a cunning plan. Maybe you want to confuse your opponent. Maybe you're just an idiot.

Maybe Porcelain Legionnaires are stonkingly overpowered.

...This is too freaking powerful. Which says very bad things about the card that inspired it.

Also; red has wayyyy too many first strikers; so this probably wants to go away.

I'm not sure it is too powerful. It just went well in my deck.

On the other hand, Halberdier suggests that perhaps it is still undercosted.

First-strike 3 is, in format, "Kill everything except the awesome stompies, and really hurt them." Although, humm - decent amounts of protector defend against it tolerably well.

Might just make the lifeloss unconditional.

Ha! That's a nice approach.

Will reword more sensibly later. Maybe.

Surely the right place in red is to give it "attacks each turn if able" and cost it appropriately? A 3/1 first strike is somewhat tricky to block -- you probably need to double-block it with two 2/2s, or race it. But where it's really punishing is on defence: your opponenet needs a 1/4, a first strike, or dozesn of creatures to be able to get any damage through. Blocking with a 3/1 first strike screams "evil white". But that's hardly very red, is it? But attacking with it is very red, and could probably cost or . Would that give an interesting card, while distinguishing it from porcelain legionare?

It's definitely a thought.

Ok, for now - let's just get rid of the lifeloss and the first strike. See what happens.

And boy does the flavourtext make no sense any more.

Was 2/2 first strike; I think.