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CardName: Phyrexian Spoiler Cost: 4 Type: Artifact Creature - Construct Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Rules Text: When Phyrexian Spoiler enters the battlefield, destroy target land. When Phyrexian Spoiler leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Snap Rare

Phyrexian Spoiler
{4}
 
 R 
Artifact Creature – Construct
When Phyrexian Spoiler enters the battlefield, destroy target land.
When Phyrexian Spoiler leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land.
3/4
Updated on 14 Nov 2017 by Camruth

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2011-07-19 01:19:43: Camruth created the card Phyrexian Spoiler

Mashup of Rolling Spoil and Phyrexian War Beast. It kills land and makes everything smaller but the same happens to you when it goes away.

Good idea. Though, I think I'd like the card better if it made the opponent lose a life and didn't have the -1/-1 line at all. This point to an inherent problem with mashing cards up... sometimes the card would rather mash with a different card. In this case, with my preference, we're talking about Stone Rain.

Maybe it would have worked better if it had the line "Then, if you control a swamp, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn", and then, when it left play, said it again. Thus, a clever player might be able to maneuver around an unwanted -1/-1 by sacrificing his lone swamp. Don't know.

This feels somewhat like a Time Spiral mashup: it really is pretty much all the effects of both cards put together, like Killer Bees + Unyaro Bee Sting = Unyaro Bees. It's interesting, but it's not really achieving the mashup idea of creating something new.

I like jmgariepy's suggestion.

2011-07-19 08:08:56: Camruth edited Phyrexian Spoiler

You're right I re-edited it to destroy a land on ETB and sac a land when leaving the battlefield.

2011-07-19 08:09:58: Camruth edited Phyrexian Spoiler

I like this final version.

Ah, nice. Yes, this is cleaner and still interesting.

2017-11-14 01:32:07: Camruth moved the card Phyrexian Spoiler from Multiverse Design Challenge into Snap

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