See Last-Ditch Effort.

Gibber. Drain Life, or cards if you prefer, or zombies.

Admittedly, the amount of mana you'd need to turn your opponent's into zombies is somewhat impressive.

• First mode is Exsanguinate.
• Second mode is strictly worse Damnable Pact. Not for the card as a whole though given the first mode... unless you're looking for a mill kill, but I think the life loss is the usual way to make a kill with the card.
• Third mode is harder to compare to any one card. It seems quite weak given cards like From Under the Floorboards and White Sun's Zenith, but that's reasonable since this card has three other modes.
• Fourth mode is strictly better Barter in Blood. Sum those all up and you should realize this is nuts. Just the last mode alone as a card would be a point of contention (since Barter in Blood is a fairly powerful card) - or the fist mode alone with any other additional mode (since Exsanguinate is a really powerful card in multiplayer).

I'm assuming the effects resolve in the order given and you can't choose otherwise, right? (regarding the last two modes)

I thought already about going up to . Would the last mode be palatable if it was "Sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent sacrifices a creature."?

I could upgrade the tokens to 3/3 Horrors to get it in line with the others. Too much?

EDIT: Yes, modes are resolved in order. If you choose a mode multiple times, you choose the order in which multiple instances of the same mode resolve, but all after other instances of the mode before and before instances of the mode after.

That zombie mode is currently the most awkward since it has that specific additional action cost. I get the interaction between it and the draw mode, but I ain't feeling it.

This is what I would do

> Display of Power
> Sorcery (M)
> Choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once.
> • Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
> • You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
> • Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
> • Each player sacrifices a creature.

Would still be really, really powerful. There's some similarity to White Sun's Zenith, but it's sorcery speed and the tokens enter tapped.

It's quite a nombo that with the current card you can pay and get pretty much "each opponent loses 1 life and sacrifices a creature".

Don't forget the powerful looting. ^^ But I see what you mean. It emphasizes that the discard doesn't fit in.

Oh, it's better not to mention that; looting is not in 's pie. While it might be able to draw cards as an effect and discard cards as a cost, it isn't supposed to do that on the card at the same time :P Pretty funny when you think about it.

Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2020-08-18.