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CardName: Joyful Torturer Cost: rr Type: Creature - Devil Imp Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Whenever Joyful Torturer deals combat damage, it deals that much damage to you. Flavour Text: Its sadistic lust knows not friend from foe. Set/Rarity: Frightful Desperation Common

Joyful Torturer
{r}{r}
 
 C 
Creature – Devil Imp
Whenever Joyful Torturer deals combat damage, it deals that much damage to you.
Its sadistic lust knows not friend from foe.
4/4
Updated on 20 Feb 2022 by Ombra

Code: CR01

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2021-11-23 17:28:23: Ombra created the card Joyful Torturer
2021-11-23 17:28:57: Ombra edited Joyful Torturer
2021-11-25 10:31:04: Ombra edited Joyful Torturer

Oh hey, it's like a colorshifted Flesh Reaver - makes sense.

This is again a scenario where the card's rarity seems questionable. It doesn't technically hit any sort of red-flag from what I can see, but it the very least seems kinda... 'swingy' don't you think? Say, if you have 3 of these on board which isn't hard to say when it costs so little and is a common, life totals for both sides might change by up to 12 points, so over 50% percent. I even shudder to think of a mirror match of shorts where both have copies of these.

It's swingy whether it's for your benefit or against you as obviously the card has a hefty drawback. I by no means think is too powerful, more so the opposite in fact, but it does to me seem too 'impactful' of a card to generate 'healthy' gameplay scenarios when it's set to appear with such frequency in limited.

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