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CardName: Blood Tax Cost: 1BB Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Target player chooses a creature he or she controls. You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process except that player can’t choose a creature already chosen for Blood Tax. Then that player sacrifices the last chosen creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Shiny Umbreon's Unmade Cards Uncommon

Blood Tax
{1}{b}{b}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Target player chooses a creature he or she controls. You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process except that player can’t choose a creature already chosen for Blood Tax. Then that player sacrifices the last chosen creature.
Updated on 12 May 2013 by Shiny_Umbreon

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2013-05-12 05:35:26: Shiny_Umbreon created the card Blood Tax

No CARDNAMR FOR YOU!

Ok, so it can hit untargetables, it can hit indestructible and it can hit regardless of type of colour.

But it costs you 2 life for each other creature they control? Ouchie. I guess the potential to use it with only one target means it can't cost {b}?

2013-05-12 16:27:46: Shiny_Umbreon edited Blood Tax

It's a powerful effect, but the cost is too high if you're using it as a Murder. :P

Yeah, it seems about right. Though, since this is technically Diabolic Edict+, you could probably ease the restrictions and drop it to {2}{b} and an instant. Even if you keep the cost, I'd make it an instant. It sucks when a card is 'worse' than a staple card like Murder in two ways.

The cost could be changed, but it seems about right now. {2}{b} is a good possibility. Instant just seems weird.

And it is not a Murder (nor meant to be compared with one), so it's not really worse than a Murder. This is meant to take care of annoying thing creatures like Thrun, the Last Troll.

seems pretty bad. you can get away with just {b}.

It's swingy but good. I think a {1}{b} sorcery or {2}{b} instant are around where it should be.

At {1}{b} it's strictly better than Cruel Edict, close to Chainer's Edict. At {2}{b} instant it's a bit like Tribute to Hunger I guess.

But I wouldn't want to make it instant. It seems strange that you can be forced to make all these decisions in the middle of combat, for example.

Also, I think the card is powerful but I may be overestimating it. I've had this idea for a long time but I never playtested it once.

Personally, I think the CC should be at 3. 1 just seems absurd... It's automatically much, much better than Innocent Blood.

That said, while I know that it's unfair to compare this card to Murder, people will compare it to Murder. That's just how humans think. I could see you going a lot of ways when costing this card (including bringing it up to {2}{b}{b}, just 'cause). Expect negative out-lashing whatever you cost this at, though. It's unfortunately unavoidable when cards have 'drawbacks'.

I agree that one mana is completely absurd. You just need to bring up Cruel Edict.

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