Original Card: Winter Sky

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• Increased cost by .
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• Now always draws a card. The coin flip determines whether there will be a bonus 1 damage to the board.
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Note: Originally, I made this flip to deal 5 damage to a creature or you draw a card, and the creature's controller draws a card. Shenanigans, but too far away from the card's intent.

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This is far from perfect. The weird changes aren't here to make the card compliant with modern Magic, and are therefore bound to be changed later. I may never be happy with the end result, though.

I changed the tremor to direct damage because the set already has two tremor effects (Dry Spell and Evaporate) and only includes Retribution as direct damage. I don't like this change, though. The flavor of the card doesn't match slamming into one creature. I'll probably end up twisting Evoparation into a direct damage spell and warp this card into something closer to a 50-50 chance at Flamebreak.

The way the card gets drawn is me being cute. Seemed silly to let every player in a multi-player game draw a card, so I cut it down to two players, and left an out for clever players who were trapped in a corner. If you absolutely need an out, and Winter Sky doesn't provide it for you, you can target your own creature and get a 50-50 shot at drawing two cards. It's probably too clever, however, and probably too divergent from the original card. Burning Inquiry would make more sense if I wanted to push the power level.

So pretend this card reads:

Winter Sky
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Sorcery
Rare
Flip a coin. If you win the flip, deal 3 damage to all creatures and players. If you lose the flip, each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Okay. Turned this into a cantrip approximating Aleatory. Always draws you a card, and sometimes slaps the board for 1. It probably even feels a little more like winter, what with the weather being sometimes cold and sometimes punishing.

It would like more like a cantrip if you put draw a card on a second line. Otherwise, I read "draw a card" and got very confused.

Yeah, I was thinking about making it a separate line altogether, but I didn't want people thinking it had something to do with the coin flip. But I was overthinking it. Two lines it is.