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CardName: Rafiq, Who Climbs Clouds Cost: 3RRWW Type: Legendary Creature - Djinn Pow/Tgh: 1/4 Rules Text: Flying When Rafiq, Who Climbs Clouds enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 white Elephant creature tokens into play. Elephants you control gain flying. When Rafiq leaves play, deal 3 damage to X target non-flying creatures, where X is equal to the number of Elephants you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic
Rafiq, Who Climbs Clouds
   Flying
When Rafiq, Who Climbs Clouds enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 white Elephant creature tokens into play. Elephants you control gain flying. When Rafiq leaves play, deal 3 damage to X target non-flying creatures, where X is equal to the number of Elephants you control. 1/4
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For Challenge # 068, and a 'fixed' version (with a lot of extrapolation on) Flock of Seagulls. I like Vitenka's take on fixing the card with Leader of the Flock... but I feel like a bit of what made Flock of Seagulls special got lost in the translation. Leader of the Flock is a good card, but it isn't... quirky.
So I changed the creature type to something that rarely gains flying, then added a rider text for why we're going about turning all the elephants into Dumbos. The funny thing is, giving the Elephants flying was probably devastating enough... you didn't really have to kill Rafiq... but I suspect some people will anyways just to trigger Elaphaggedon.
By the by... if there isn't enough creatures to land on, the elephants start to explode. I don't know if you noticed that. That might be bad design, but I find the flavor to be hilarious, so I'm leaving it alone.
Ooh, this does have one problem that I deliberately introduced into my bad design Mutato Devil. That'd be excusable if it were a problem in the source card Flock of Seagulls, but this is a problem in the new last ability you added. (That ability I will freely admit is hilarious.)
I like the idea, but it seems too complicated.
It probably is too complicated. I changed a poorly designed card to a slightly less poorly designed card. Unfortunately, I like bad cards, and don't have the heart to change this one.