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CardName: Escalating Fire Cost: R Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Escalate (As an additional cost to cast Escalating Fire, reveal cards from the top of your library until you choose to stop or reveal one that costs less than the one before. Put them on the bottom of your library in any order.) If you chose to stop, deal damage to target creature equal to the number of revealed cards. Else, draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home None

Escalating Fire
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Instant
Escalate (As an additional cost to cast Escalating Fire, reveal cards from the top of your library until you choose to stop or reveal one that costs less than the one before. Put them on the bottom of your library in any order.)
If you chose to stop, deal damage to target creature equal to the number of revealed cards. Else, draw a card.
Created on 31 Mar 2017 by Jack V

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2017-03-31 21:35:49: Jack V created and commented on the card Escalating Fire

This is way too wordy. But I wanted something with this feel, of something that could do 1 damage, and might well do 2 damage, and you could even try for more in the rare case where you wanted to push your luck.

I'm not quite happy with the condition, it's too hard to get above 1. But I wasn't sure what else would do.

Hm, maybe something like "until you reveal 2 cards with the same name"? Although that might be too good in decks with diverse mana bases.

I also considered returning the spell to your hand if you failed, but I didn't want you to be able to try multiple times in the same turn.

This is the simple version; more complicated cards might do something with the revealed cards: count their total CMC, or draw them all, or something.

Any suggestion for something similar but less fiddly?

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