As per my comment on Baron's Grunt what is effectively a 3/3 trampling flying creature the turn it dies for is awesome. for a 1/1 flying creature is fair in Black but to add a Shock effect when it dies should cost at least if not more.

With Deathtrap 1 it would still be strong but not overly so.

In playtesting this actually only proved to be OK. People just let it go unblocked. It's nowhere near as good as Vault Skirge or Mourning Thrull. It either plinks for 1 a turn, or sits there as a 3/1 flying defender, at which point it's less good than Oona's Gatewarden.

I'll certainly watch it in playtesting: if it becomes too scary with equipment, say, then I could increase the costs a bit. But at the moment I think it's okay.

You're probably right,I think I got sidetracked by Black being predisposed to running sacrifice outlets and how good this can be in such a deck.

Deathtrap should probably read 'when this creature dies, ...' now.

I seem to recall this being rather nasty when you used it with a suicide outlet that exploded it for damage anyway. But not unfairly so.

Heh, so it should. At least that's easy to update in one place.