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CardName: Minion Exploiter Cost: 1r Type: Creature - Gremlin Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Minion Exploiter exploits a creature, discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Archester Revival Common

Minion Exploiter
{1}{r}
 
 C 
Creature – Gremlin
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Minion Exploiter exploits a creature, discard a card. If you do, draw two cards.
2/1
Updated on 01 Feb 2016 by MOON-E

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2015-10-06 03:32:33: MOON-E created the card Minion Exploiter

The current wording violates the "Red can't get Card advantage"-rule b/c, if it's your last card, you can exploit, discard nothing, then draw two.

That's easy to solve, btw, with "discard a card. If you do..."

2015-10-06 05:34:02: MOON-E edited Minion Exploiter:

Changed to conditional to prevent card advantage.

When did red start getting value bears at common?

2015-10-06 17:08:36: MOON-E edited Minion Exploiter:

Changed PT from 2/2 to 2/1 to make it not a bear.

I am interested in having this be a large bulky late game common that cycles late land into fuel.

Minion Exploiter {4}{r}{r}
Creature - Ogre
5/4
Exploit
When ~ exploits a creature, discard a card. If you do, draw two cards.

If we make the change and fill the top end of red, I am proposing this as the CR09 slot in the skeleton

on 01 Feb 2016 by Legend:

This is a really bad and awkward effect = sacrifice a creature, discard a card: Draw a card. Yuk. Why not a simple black exploit cantrip?

Well, right now it's draw two, which is definitely something I can get behind: essentially a Tormenting Voice that can be a creature if needed.

I'm not sure about it. It fills a really similar space to Vulturous Aven.

Er... Vulturous Aven? Really? I don't see the similarity.

I like the 5/4 for {4}{r}{r} option, though it'll feel really bad when you need to exploit itself to get a 6-mana Tormenting Voice.

on 01 Feb 2016 by Legend:

Oh I totally misread the draw two. So the power level isn't as bad
as I thought, but it's still feels quite bad for common.
i guess spike needs his cards too though.

on 01 Feb 2016 by Legend:

What I meant to say was, exploit is already a Spiky feel-bad mechanic. And this card in particular is exceptionally so because it has two feel-bad mechanics on a lame body. grimGrendel is probably right here - make it a 5/4.

I admit Tormenting Voice is not really useful at 6 mana. The ability should be changed to make it an interesting split card, to allow the play of sacrificing the 5/4 for its effect. How about Blood feud?
"When ~ exploits a creature, target creature fights another target creature"
It might not be common anymore though.

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