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CardName: Jendayi's Botched Lesson Cost: 1B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: The next time a card would leave a graveyard this turn, exile that card instead. If a creature card was exiled this way, create 2/2 Black zombie token. Otherwise, that card's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Flavour Text: "Life and death is a circle, so please don't spellcraft straight lines." Set/Rarity: Onar, Titans' Dominions Common

Jendayi's Botched Lesson
{1}{b}
 
 C 
Instant
The next time a card would leave a graveyard this turn, exile that card instead. If a creature card was exiled this way, create 2/2 Black zombie token. Otherwise, that card's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
"Life and death is a circle, so please don't spellcraft straight lines."
Updated on 03 Dec 2020 by Sorrow

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2020-12-03 01:03:03: Sorrow created the card Jendayi's Botched Lesson
2020-12-03 01:03:49: Sorrow edited Jendayi's Botched Lesson

This looks weird and super niche. Off the top of my head it doesn't look like it'd work against most graveyard mechanics like unearth, flashback, retrace or encore: they either cast the spell in response to this, or this works to delay them casting the spell by one turn. So I went looking in the set for things that interact with it.

Okay, so although this doesn't work against things which move the card out of the graveyard as a cost, like flashback and similar, it is fairly good against "return card X from your graveyard" spells, and the set does have quite a few of those.

I still feel this would be better as a Cling to Dust effect. That lets it hit Gut-Muck Goblin and the others where it's currently less effective. But it's not quite as niche as I had thought.

"would leave a graveyard this turn, exile that card..." ?

2020-12-03 12:44:34: Sorrow edited Jendayi's Botched Lesson:

Updated to what jmgariepy said.
@Alex- An outright, more proactive ability would be simpler. Unfortunately, I don't think the current effects of the card would fit well with a proactive form, as it was designed around being reactive. Should appropriate effects come to mind later for a proactive version, I may make this card like Cling to Dust.

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