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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 |
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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.
You're right I re-edited it to destroy a land on ETB and sac a land when leaving the battlefield.
I like this final version.
Ah, nice. Yes, this is cleaner and still interesting.