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CardName: Unnatural Edict Cost: 1UBR Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Draw two cards. Each opponent may then sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls. You draw another card for each opponent who did not sacrifice a creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Ma'at Breached Uncommon

Unnatural Edict
{1}{u}{b}{r}
 
 U 
Instant
Draw two cards. Each opponent may then sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls. You draw another card for each opponent who did not sacrifice a creature.
Updated on 25 Nov 2014 by 10vernothin

Code: UZ28

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2014-05-07 17:51:48: 10vernothin created the card Unnatural Edict
2014-11-21 20:31:31: 10vernothin edited Unnatural Edict

This effect is normally {r/g} (see Gaea's Herald, Insist, Overmaster, Vexing Shusher). Untapping lands is green as well (though blue can do it too). I think this should cost {r}{g} or {1}{r}{g}... if you really want it to be three-colour, then {u}{r}{g}. It'd be just odd for black (or white) to be in the cost of this.

I needed a Grixis instant with the name "unnatural edict". I can make it a different card.

2014-11-25 20:41:57: 10vernothin edited Unnatural Edict

This will almost always be 3 shard mana just to cycle a card, which is extremely weak. A more realistic compensation for failure to sacrifice would be draw 3, in the tradition of cards like Browbeat and Fatal Lore.

2014-11-25 22:12:22: 10vernothin edited Unnatural Edict

I think drawing two cards would be a good compromise between it being an uncommon and it being too weak

Hmm. So in a duel this is Inspiration, 1 mana cheaper but much more fiddly colours. With the drawback that an opponent will (once in a blue moon) sac something to deny you your draw. Not very good. However, in multiplayer its value skyrockets: even with just 2 opponents you're getting either 4 cards, or 2 cards and make one of them sac a creature.

Perhaps the value of this is a little too swingy with the number of opponents. Perhaps split the difference? "Draw two cards. Each opponent may sac... Then you draw a card for each opponent who didn't sacrifice a creature." That's better in duels - Jace's Ingenuity much cheaper, in exchange for fiddly colours and the out against a token deck - the same with 2 opponents, and less explosive with 3+ opponents (while still being clearly a multiplayer-scaling card).

2014-11-25 22:25:36: 10vernothin edited Unnatural Edict
2014-11-25 22:28:45: 10vernothin edited Unnatural Edict

upped the mana cost.

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