For Challenge # 052.

With a card that can deanimate and a way to reanimate at instant speed, this is infinitely large!

No need to reanimate for the purposes of Challenge # 052. If your opponent can't respond to the triggers, this card will create a continuous loop, forcing the game into a draw. If your opponent wins game one, expect him to try to combo out draws for the rest of the match.

I created a counterpart: Petrifying Licid.

@jmg That's not broken, that's just unsportsmanlike.

Unsportsmanlike or no, it still wins matches. There was an older trick with 3x Faceless Butchers. Play three in succession with no other creatures in the game, and the game loops indefinitely. It was a rare, but mean trick to play against Psychatog players after winning the first game. Why would they bother to counter your stupid Butchers?

I'm not saying we should aim to design that way, or that players should play decks with cards that take advantage of the rules... but the challenge was to design a card that breaks due to unexpected reasons, and, presumably, give a Spike a major advantage.

Um. Did faceless butcher previously omit the "Other than" wording? Oh wait, right, it can exile another faceless butcher, because it actually means ~this~. Gah.

Anyway. This seems to me to not be a "Unexpectedly format defining" card, but rather "This card is just blatantly broken as printed" At least have it say "on another creature" so that you need two of it to go infinite.

I didn't even think about the fact that you could de-animate this and make an infinite loop. That's why I made it noncreature permanent in the first place, so that it wouldn't loop infinitely with two of them.