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CardName: Mutation Fiend Cost: {B}{B}{R}{R} Type: Creature - Mutant Horror Pow/Tgh: 5/3 Rules Text: Lifelink Whenever you gain life, put a mutation counter on target creature you control. That creature becomes a 5/3 Mutant for as long as it has a mutation counter on it. {R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mutation Fiend: Mutation Fiend deals X damage to target creature or player, where X the number of Mutants you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic
Mutation Fiend
  Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a mutation counter on target creature you control. That creature becomes a 5/3 Mutant for as long as it has a mutation counter on it. ,  , Sacrifice Mutation Fiend: Mutation Fiend deals X damage to target creature or player, where X the number of Mutants you control.5/3
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Created for Challenge # 068, as a fix to Mutato Devil. I'm not sure if this is that good of a fix, but then again, the original card was pretty ridiculous.
That seems like a fair enough translation. A small nagging voice that the back of my head is telling me to tell you that I think you should put the counter on the creature, then change its power and toughness permanently, not until the counter is removed. That's a matter of taste, I suppose.
That is a pretty good fix of an absurd card. It may be that Mutato Devil is best split into two parts to be fixed separately. (Well, it's best split into about five hundred parts and sprinkled into the waste paper bin, but.)
This does indeed fix 8 of the 9 ways that I identified that Mutato Devil was bad. The only remaining problem here is the colour of the effects. This is certainly a lot closer to sane than Mutato Devil's colour affiliation, but I'm not sure making things 5/3 is a black or red thing to do, and counting Mutants in black or red is pretty odd.
But overall I'm really quite impressed. You managed to stay closer to the original than I'd expected any fix of it would be able to.