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CardName: Demon of Armok Cost: {2}{B}{B} Type: Creature - Demon Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Flying During their upkeep, each player must sacrifice a creature unless they have an opponent with 4 or more lands in their graveyard. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Strike The Earth Uncommon

Demon of Armok
{2}{b}{b}
 
 U 
Creature – Demon
Flying
During their upkeep, each player must sacrifice a creature unless they have an opponent with 4 or more lands in their graveyard.
4/4
Updated on 25 May 2012 by Vitenka

Code: UB03

History: [-]

2011-08-17 11:58:43: Vitenka created the card Demon of Armok
2011-10-27 12:20:51: Vitenka edited Demon of Armok

The only flying creature in the set. (Though blue gets a mass-jump)

And it's really quite bad. Or at least, very restrictive. Unless you can feed it a cat token every turn.

Well, I wanted something relatively cheap. I guess I could make this the multi-removal and have the rare be an even bigger flying demon. But then the 'block flyers' stuff becomes REALLY useless.

How cheap am I allowed to make a black flyer with drawback?

You could just make this a black Air Elemental and it'd be fine. Or give it some minor ability that affects each player equally and cost it at 5 or 6 not 4. Perhaps "each player sacrifices a creature", or even "Each player sacrifices a creature unless he or she has 4 or more lands in his or her graveyard"?

How about instead of sac every turn it has an ETB ability of "Each player sacs a creature for each land in their graveyard"?

Gleep! That'd need to be at least rare.

2011-11-27 14:27:49: Vitenka edited Demon of Armok:

made the sac symmetrical

Just a quick note: I think this works out as the whole ability shuts off if any one of your opponents has >=4 lands in gy. But it could easily be read as "for each player, that player sacs a creature unless one of that player's opponents has >=4 lands in gy".

Um. Now you've confused me.

What I want is For each player, does opponent have lots of dead lands? Yes? Do nothing. No? Sac a creature.

What do you mean by "opponent"? One of that player's opponents, or one of the Demon's controller's opponents?

Logic table time! My intent is: If we BOTH have 4 dead lands, no sac. If YOU have 4 lands, I don't sac, you do. If I have 4 lands, I sac, you don't. If neither of us do, both sac.

2012-05-25 12:57:42: Vitenka edited Demon of Armok:

make explicit

This... really should be a rare. It's way too fiddly for uncommon, and way too powerful.

On the flip side, it's a build hint card "Hey, flyer. Ground stall and land destroy until this guy can beat them down"

Not sure.

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