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CardName: Gideon, Champion of Judgement Cost: 3BB Type: Planeswalker - Gideon Pow/Tgh: /4 Rules Text: [0] Until end of turn, Gideon, Champion of Judgement becomes a 4/4 Vampire creature with flying that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. Whenever he deals combat damage to a player, put that many loyalty counters on him. [-2] Destroy target tapped creature. [-15] Exile all other permanents. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Gideon, Champion of Judgement
  0 Until end of turn, Gideon, Champion of Judgement becomes a 4/4 Vampire creature with flying that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. Whenever he deals combat damage to a player, put that many loyalty counters on him.
-2 Destroy target tapped creature. -15 Exile all other permanents. 4
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See Challenge # 138.
Gideon Jura makes me think the first ability should be a - ability. It's also going to be very hard to ever get to the ultimate if he only gets one counter a turn. Also, I think the ultimate does need to be shifted to black in some manner.
To increase the counters maybe have the 0 ability go off whenever he'd deal damage to a player put that many +1/+1 counters on him? It'd be like a planeswalker lifelink.
Cost 6->5, added "loyaltylink", changed destroy cost 0->-2
Oh, awesome. I made "destroy" positive because he needed SOME positive ability, and I increased the mana cost to compensate. But "loyaltylink" is an awesome black-gideon ability, that's much better.
I considered changing the ultimate to "destroy" just to be different, but black and white both do exile. I decided the flavour of "exile all others" was plenty black, even though it's been white more often in the past.
It's not the exile that put me off but rather that the ultimate hits artifacts and enchantments.
Oh, I see. Right, that is less good. I think it's acceptable as-is: ultimate-type effects do occasionally bypass the pie to do board-sweeps. "Creatures, lands and planeswalkers" would be better, but only if it fits, I'm long on words already...
Bear in mind that the planeswalker frame actually gives equal space to each of the 3 abilities. Which means this would be really teenytiny text given the first ability, but does mean that there's room for more words on the second and third.
I do love "loyaltylink", that's a really cool ability for a black self-animating planeswalker.