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CardName: Empathy Seal Cost: 1B Type: Enchantment - Aura Seal Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller loses that much life. Unseal {4} ({4}: Destroy this. Its controller draws a card. Any player may activate this ability during their turn.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Xianlu Common |
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Oh, fu. Not flu. "Empathy flu" seemed like a great name for a black card :)
Why the get-out clause though? It doesn't seem massively overpowered without it.
Most of the Talismans are designed with a get-out clause - in essence, these are B or C-level picks that are designed to be tempo cards. Since there's a lack of strong go-wide strategies and I want to encourage voltronning, strong removal mostly occurs at CMCs 4 or above, or is sorcery speed. So Talismans are mostly designed as 22nd/23rd cards in most decks that decks can use if they're lacking on removal (since they'll be picked up so late), or as cards that dedicated control decks can mostly count on wheeling. As for why this one in particular has the get-out clause, I agree it's not massively overpowered. This one is designed for more aggressive decks to stick on opposing blockers; however, I'm being pretty wary of the power of aggressive decks with all of the evasion abilities getting handed around with bequeath, as well as other cheap common cards that can remove blockers easily. I might adjust the destruction ability to be
instead of 
depending on how strong aggressive decks end up being.
And yeah, "Fu" is just a term used for paper talismans in Chinese. It takes up less space than "Talisman", so I decided to use it.
Not fan of the "3 life" here...
> Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller loses that much life.
Ragged Veins?