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CardName: Saruun, Siphon Scale Cost: 5{pW}{pW} Type: Creature - Dragon Cleric Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Rules Text: Flying, Lifelink {pW}: The next time another player gains life you gain that much life. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Misc Design for future sets. Mythic

Saruun, Siphon Scale
{5}{pw}{pw}
 
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Creature – Dragon Cleric
Flying, Lifelink
{pw}: The next time another player gains life you gain that much life.
5/5
Updated on 04 Dec 2014 by Vonmarcus

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2014-03-01 22:28:14: Vonmarcus created the card Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-03-01 22:30:33: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-03-14 00:35:59: Vonmarcus moved the card Saruun, Siphon Scale from Here Be Dragons into Phyrexian Descent 1
2014-03-14 12:32:42: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-03-15 02:31:26: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-03-15 02:36:25: Vonmarcus moved the card Saruun, Siphon Scale from Phyrexian Descent 1 into Phyrexian Descent 2

Nice! Fun dragon. Bit of a problem that if each player has one of these, it's an instant infinite loop, though.

Hmm good point there. I'll tweak it some.

2014-03-20 20:22:15: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale

Well, it's still infinite if the lifegain is 3+ but with a couple of decision points in it.

It's a nice idea for a dragon ability though. Add vigilance and {t} to the ability; is my suggestion. Though yowsers, a flying vigilant 5/5 for {5} is a scary thing.

Yeah I didn't put vigilance on it for that reason. Though it is a mythic. I'd rather not make the ability tap so that it can be used in response even if the Dragon has attacked. I might just add another {pw} to the activation cost. Yeah I'll do that.

2014-03-21 01:36:52: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale

Actually it's not infinite. If there's a loop going on in which at least one player has to make a choice to continue it, the current infinite loop rules handle it just fine. Basically, you can each gain a trillion life, but then you have to stop.

Don't put the {t} symbol on this! Big powerful flyers should very rarely have {t}, because people want to attack with their huge dragons, not tap them for abilities.

Hmm. This is actually sensibly costed. A 5/5 flyer for {5} and a tiny amount of life. That... probably means it's not actually good enough for mythic, sigh. It's certainly much weaker than many other rares/mythics in this set.

My suggestion? Add lifelink :) It'll still be not as pushed as Baneslayer Angel most of the time, but it'll be a lot more exciting for Timmies to play.

Hmm you do make a good point. I think that lifelink will help this be more Mythicy. And given the lack of an automatic infinite loop I am going to go with the orginal cost for the ability.

2014-03-21 14:43:03: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-12-04 15:37:14: Vonmarcus edited Saruun, Siphon Scale
2014-12-04 15:37:32: Vonmarcus moved the card Saruun, Siphon Scale from Phyrexian Descent 2 into Misc Design for future sets.

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