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CardName: Harsh Goading Cost: 2B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Harsh Goading deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an Elephant, you gain 6 life. Otherwise, if it's a Beast, you gain 3 life. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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Having another go at Psichic Ankus for Challenge # 068. I think this has a fair go at the instant and double lifelink.
This could be an artifact with flash and sacrifice, but I think making it a black instant makes more sense. On the other hand, the artifact could actually have lifelink, like Seal of Chastisement. Well, Soulfire Grand Master shows this could have lifelink too, but that'd be weird for the sake of it given the precedent of Douse in Gloom etc.
I'm not hugely keen on the way this gains 9 life hitting a Changeling, but I can't find a common-suitable phrasing that avoids that: adding "instead" after the final word makes it look like it might replace the damage as well as the earlier lifegain.
LOL. Oh very good conversion! It's still a bit narrow, but could just about be printed for flavour in the right set :) I can't believe you found a way to capture the double-lifelink :)
How about "Else/otherwise, if that creature is an elephant..."?
good plan
Yeah, that's a better plan. "Otherwise" is a standard template - Armament of Nyx, Brood Birthing etc. There's even precedent for "Otherwise, if" - albeit in silver border: Free-Range Chicken :)