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CardName: Greedy Demon Cost: 2bb Type: Creature - Demon Advisor Pow/Tgh: -1/-1 Rules Text: Bargain (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may pay life equal to its converted mana cost. Otherwise, you gain that much life.) Whenever you pay life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Greedy Demon. Haste As Greedy Demon enters the battlefield, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Pemberly Uncommon

Greedy Demon
{2}{b}{b}
 
 U 
Creature – Demon Advisor
Bargain (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may pay life equal to its converted mana cost. Otherwise, you gain that much life.)
Whenever you pay life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Greedy Demon.
Haste
As Greedy Demon enters the battlefield, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
-1/-1
Updated on 17 Mar 2016 by continuumg

Code: UB03

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History: [-]

2016-03-13 23:29:46: continuumg created the card Greedy Demon
2016-03-16 14:16:18: continuumg edited Greedy Demon

Anyone know how this can be worked so it doesn't just die?

That's... quite tricky, actually, if you want it to work with Bargain as written. A cast trigger won't work.

You could do a horrible hack like "~ ETBs with 4 +1/+1 counters on it. When ~ ETBs, at end of turn remove 4 +1/+1 counters from it."

But at that point you might as well say "~ ETBs with a negotiation counter on it. As long as ~ has a negotiation counter on it, it's not put into a graveyard for having 0 or less toughness. At EOT, remove a negotiation counter from ~."

The only elegant solution I can find is to make it a 1/1 rare for {2}{b}{b}.

What if Bargain was "as this creature ETBs..." instead of "when this creature ETBs..."?

Make it a 1/1 but add some other drawback? Make it a 1/1 but add half that many counters rounded up?

BTW, I like the flavour, but how is bargain supposed to work -- do all the cards have a reason to chose "pay" rather than "gain"?

2016-03-17 17:28:34: continuumg edited Greedy Demon:

Trying to prevent instadeath

Most of them. Sometimes you want the gain, other times you might want to trigger a different bargain card. Notice many of them work any time you pay life.

2016-03-17 17:30:16: continuumg edited Greedy Demon

Probably a rare now

2016-03-17 17:33:00: continuumg edited Greedy Demon:

3b -> 2bb

Kinda like a blade-tribe berserkers that can grow with downside. But if you REALLY need the 4 life, a 2/2 spark elemental.

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