For Challenge # 033, following Personal Demon.

Yeeeeeep!

Is it that scary? :-O

It costs at least to tap a land for mana. Good luck getting that first 7 mana.

D'oh. I forgot to make an exception for mana abilities.

Here, this is less scary.

Even so it makes a Scornful Egotist virtually unanswerable, and there's a phrase you won't hear very often.

Or in fact, as Rachael points out, it itself is 7 mana. It might as well say (7) than (X), because nobody's going to be casting an 8-mana spell with this out; even Scornful Egotist's morph shell would cost (10)! I think it's absurdly overpowered - way too much of a tax to impose.

Set the tax at (3) and that would be a very strong card. (7) is just too much.

I wasn't really thinking about how powerful this would be when I made it, I was just trying to riff off of Personal Demon's reference to the highest life total, and sadly that resulted in a broken card.

This makes more flavor sense, given the name... but it's still evil.