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What if it cost
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and had equip 
It's an instant, but the top left corner has the sorcery symbol.
Also, it's a DFC, so sun and moon are necessary.
Also, while mechanically connected, I don't see a thematic connection.
I think both sides are unplayable in limited and underwhelming in effect.
Here is an alternative:
http://tinyurl.com/hsypahr
We could add +1/+0 or +1/+1 if we restrict the activation to sorcery timing.
@Doombringer: Care to elaborate? We could drain life but that takes us close to the Red one. I'm pretty sure we don't want repeated discard, -1/-1, or raise dead. I don't see a reason to exile cards from graveyard. Lifelink or deathtouch are the only other simple black effects I can think of and I like menace more than those.
Flavor change too.
I'm not a fan of this card.
I think that's a fine change, I actually quite like it. Let's go for it.
Here is a render of how I was thinking the card could be:
http://tinyurl.com/guomjfv
I was suggestion
shock on the front side. Also note that Razortip Whip isn't really considered playable in limited though you could make the backside cost 
. if you where really worried about it.
Precisely. If we made this a shock, we (of course) couldn't keep the front-side at
, simply because it'd become way too efficient then. We'd definitely have to raise the cost.
The problem is, while this is 'fine' for its cost, it also is much more of a fringe playable. Compare it to Lava Axe - at
it matches Lava Axe's damage output, but it lets you pay over many turns, and eventually surpass it. Does that mean this is playable? I'm not sure. A lot of the value of Lava Axe is in the surprise.
Also, do note this becomes much more playable with Canisters, which can accelerate damage output.
Remember that if the back side looks like it would be a playable card by itself than the front side should look like it would be playable if it said "Draw a card". If the front side is removal, it either needs to cost what you would expect to pay for a 2 for 1, or the back side needs to be less valuable than "a card".
I think you're most likely right, and I guess it'd count as a 'double-halving' in a way.
Yikes. The transient-into-permanent theme was very obvious to me, and getting land cards in any way is too permanent to maintain that theme IMO.
The doubling rather than the "transient into permanent" part was far more apparent to me. What about making it double Lay of the Land?
Does it have to be? Making it more playable seems important and I doubt the inability to target creatures on the backside would make the sides feel unconnected.
No, because the backside would have to also be "creature or player", which wouldn't be possible at common.
The theme is "two transient into one permanent". While that's not concrete or anything, it'd be nice to maintain the theme.
Could the front side be a 2dmg shock?
Why not simply have the front face be a Rampant Growth or Lay of the Land?
I was trying to avoid Equipment at common, though now that I think about it, this probably would indeed be better asn equipment. Good idea, continuumg.
It doesn't necessarily need to be a black ability. A 3 cost artifact that prevents blocking is reasonable in and of itself. It also fits the flavour. Black could bend a little to have that, anyways. See Visions of Brutality.
I might be on board if it became an equipment that granted menace. Unnerving Assault // Unnatural Mask, anyone?
But the flavour is delicious :(
Oh well
Ah, no, I can see that. The flavor is subject to change though.
Yeah, I think you're right
I feel like it fits the flavour of a fear toxin more, but that's just me
Nice. Darksteel Pendant was too perfect of a common artifact not to use for a member of this cycle. And we get the fabled 'only keyword' frontside. :)