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CardName: Obstinance Cost: brgw Type: Creature - Incarnation Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: If you would draw a card, you may instead choose one — You gain 4 life; or each opponent loses 4 life; or Obstinance deals 4 damage to target creature; or shuffle up to four target cards from graveyards into their owner's libraries. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Anydria Storage Mythic

Obstinance
{b}{r}{g}{w}
 
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Creature – Incarnation
If you would draw a card, you may instead choose one — You gain 4 life; or each opponent loses 4 life; or Obstinance deals 4 damage to target creature; or shuffle up to four target cards from graveyards into their owner's libraries.
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Created on 13 Mar 2014 by Link

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2014-03-13 20:14:11: Link created and commented on the card Obstinance

I've been considering having a four-color mythic rare in Anydria. I had all of the effects at 3, but I worried that they weren't impressive enough for you to wasn't to skip your draw. At four, however, they seem too large, though it gives everything a pleasant roundness.

What's a green ability that's completely non- blue to which I can give a number? The other colors are all easy, but the current green ability here is also blue. Giving a creature +4/+4 seems too similar to either the black or the red ability in the end result.

Reach? Block n additional creatures? Add mana?

Reach doesn't really work as something to grand on your "upkeep," which is usually when you're going to forgo drawing. Neither does blocking additional creatures, which I think is white anyway. Adding mana could work, but I'd have to add an annoyingly long clause about it not emptying from your mana pool for a turn.
Maybe returning land cards from graveyard to hand would be good.

Technically, gain 4 life is just as green as it is white, so you could justify swapping it to either color. I was going to suggest cutting deal 4 damage to a creature and adding +4/-4 for red, and -4/+4 for white, and call green life gain. But, the +/- thing is fine for one color... once you put in both, it looks blue again...

+4/-4 feels red-black to me, and -4/+4 is a but of a stretch to put in white while also not being particularly useful on your turn, when you're most likely to be drawing cards.

For extra fun, add Lich or Nefarious Lich.

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