This is a nifty little guy. Definitely a playable one-drop, which are always pleasing. I don't know whether he might be too good, but I think probably not - just good enough to be a good card.

Thanks, I like it a lot more now with the namechange, which I needed when I decided to bump the nomads to the second set of the block.

Great card! Costed well and great effect

Thanks

Cool card. But keep in mind that on-board tricks on commons, especially something as powerful as redirection, can create all sort of stalemates and hard-to-process situations.

But I would like to draft 5 of these and see my opponents cry.

I figured that as it was a ability it would be ok at common.

One alone kills any X/1 that's threatening you, while "gaining you 1 life" from another attacker. It can also block and kill X/2's if there's another unblocked attacker. At the very least it prevents 1 damage from nonhexproof guys.

But in multiples it's all just very silly.

Combat abilities stopped being in vogue because of the pileup they caused in Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block. It doesn't mean you can't have them in common, though. A good designer just needs to make sure the set only has a peppering of them, and none that are automatic first picks in draft. Otherwise, you lose a lot of casual players.

Of course, some rogue designers response to that has been "Ef the casual player! My set is expert level only." That seems like a legitimate choice, too. We aren't burdened by Wizards restraints after all, and few people will say "I don't like this card because it has a tap symbol for combat".