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CardName: Pyrolexis Cost: 2RB Type: Creature - Horror Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: Flying Whenever Pyrolexis deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from his or her hand. Then exile the top two cards of his or her library. If any of the exiled cards share a colour, Pyrolexis deals 3 damage that player. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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Mashup of Scalpelexis and Pyrokinesis, for Challenge # 001. This has come out really interesting. It's like a Hypnotic Specter with a minigame of 'try to exile something that doesn't match the top cards of your library'. 3 damage doesn't quite fit the mashup, but it felt like 4 was too strong for a 4 mana creature.
Could alternatively replace "deal 3 damage to that player" with "repeat this process", at which point it becomes a monoblack Specter.
I like it, but it feels like the card should exile 4 cards, then deal 1 damage to the opponent for each card that shares a color...
You definitely could go in that direction. There are lots of possible mashups of these two. I liked the way Pyrokinesis requires you to exile a red card from hand to ACC the red spell, so I thought I'd make the opponent exile a card from hand and care about its colour. 1 from hand + 3 from library would be very fiddly and asymmetric, but I think making them lose 2 cards from hand would be very harsh (Silent Specter).