Inspired by Sign in Blood. Questions, comments, suggestions?

Probably ends up like Yawgmoth's Bargain: i.e. completely broken. 5 damage in the next end step doesn't matter if I can draw 15 cards and kill you before then.

I'd simply make it "If this ability has been activated three or more times this turn, Sadistic Mentor deals X damage to you". Maybe drop the damage from 5 to something less? would mean they could keep going but at a higher cost - pay 1 life & X damage ?????

Inspired by Sign in Blood. Tweaked slightly. Thanks for the comments, questions, suggestions. :D

Edited it a bit, toned it down.

This is now a nice black Archivist. I could see this being printed.

you could line this up with Brilliant Mentor by making it

"Lose 1 life, : Draw a card." The Red one - Impatient Mentor wouldn't work this way though. Although, having it the only one worded differently would play into the flavour of the card...

"I'm too impatient to wait for 'correct' wording!!!"

Well, that'd have to be ", Pay 1 life". Which is fine, but there's basically no difference between the red and black ones. (Incidentally, the black one is fine colour-pie-wise, but the red one is distinctly dubious.)

The red one I'm working on. Red has it fair share of card drawing stuff, but always at the cost of randomly discarding. Hmmm.

It's much better now.

Yeah, he gets his own card. LOL