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CardName: Usury Demon Cost: BBBB Type: Creature - Demon Pow/Tgh: 4/3 Rules Text: Whenever you would lose life, instead put that many usury counters on Usury Demon, then sacrifice a permanent. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Usury Demon has any usury counters on it, sacrifice a permanent. When Usury Demon leaves play, you lose life equal to twice the number of usury counters on Usury Demon. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Valnalia Rare
Usury Demon
 Whenever you would lose life, instead put that many usury counters on Usury Demon, then sacrifice a permanent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Usury Demon has any usury counters on it, sacrifice a permanent. When Usury Demon leaves play, you lose life equal to twice the number of usury counters on Usury Demon. 4/3
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This is probably unbalanced in some fashion or another, but it's an interesting idea. Any broken combos immediately spring to mind? I think that things that let you pay X life might be borked - you could pay any number. I'm not sure the rules work like that, though.
You can only pay as much life as you have. This reminds me of Delaying Shield; it works against lifeloss, but you need to sac permanents rather than just pay mana. I like it. You might want to make it work on damage rather than lifeloss, for balance, but that's up to you.
Yeah, alright, that should be relatively balanced then. If you go and pay 20 life for some effect, then you'll only have to sacrifice one permanent, but if anybody manages to destroy he demon, you'll be rather boned.
"Only one permanent" - per turn, of course.
This needs to ba a 2/2, for the pun.
If you have a slight blue splash, you might be able to get away with "Donate, respond with Spoils of the Vault, and after all that's done, follow up with any number of things." Dark Betrayal, Tel-Jilad Stylus, and Despotic Scepter are all cheap ways to get rid of it after donating it.
Pun? I don't get it.
The "pun" relies on mispronouncing "Usury" ("YOU-juh-ry") as "Ursury" (ER-suh-ry), and therefore getting "Ursa" -> "Bear" -> 2/2. Mistaking the Latin "usus" root as being "ursa" instead.
It's not really a very good pun.