For Challenge # 060

I thought "what does a still life with a skull in remind me of" and my mind jumped to this. I originally tried to make it store up the life you've lost and have you lose that amount, but that was just too fiddly.

There wasn't originally a mana payment, but if it just said "prevent all damage that would be dealt to you" I thought it would be too impassable to some decks. I did change it from "leave the battlefield" to "destroyed".

Interesting. Makes a lot of sense.

Interesting choice of colour. Dorian and his bargain are very black, very self-centred. But the mechanic this has ended up at is quite white.

Yeah, I hesitated between white and black. I think if it doesn't have the "horribly backfire" clause it would be white, but the devil's bargain aspect is black-ish. But playing with life totals and damage prevention is white.

I considered WB, but somehow that felt even more wrong than one or the other :)

I think this card is a lot more fun to read than to play with or against. For anyone that thinks Circles of Protection are boring, this is a million times worse.

The other thing is that it's too swingy. If you aren't getting it destroyed, you're in a very good spot. Otherwise, you just lose. Nobody likes to lose against a Naturalize, which is why Lich and such cards have always been very unpopular, and why new variations like Immortal Coil avoid making you lose just because.