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CardName: Lai Kaa-Ming Cost: 2wb Type: Legendary Planeswalker - Kaa-Ming Pow/Tgh: /3 Rules Text: [+1]: Exile up to three cards in any graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. [-X]: Exile target creature with converted mana cost X. [-7]: Lai Kaa-Ming deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life, where X is equal to the number of cards exiled by all Lai Kaa-Ming permanents this game. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: So Ling 素靈 Mythic
Lai Kaa-Ming
   +1: Exile up to three cards in any graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.
-X: Exile target creature with converted mana cost X. -7: Lai Kaa-Ming deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life, where X is equal to the number of cards exiled by all Lai Kaa-Ming permanents this game. 3
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wrong cardname in text; add "this game"
That final clause is pretty clunky. I fear it in fact would need to be templated even more clunkily - "all permanents named Lai Kaa-Ming" - though you could perhaps get away with "all Kaa-Ming permanents", referring to the subtype.
But I suspect development would just cut it and say simply "number of cards exiled by ~".
I really like the middle ability. I could see it as a sorcery costing
, along the lines of Disembowel, but it also reminds me of Excise.
So not only was this concept of white+black planeswalker themed around exile zone created at least five years before WotC's Kaya, this particular card with these specific abilities was created eight years before Kaya, Orzhov Usurper.