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This was a Timmy tribute from the very start (and an answer to whomever asked if there were NON-Pygmy mendwurms). I can see your point on the 25 mana though. I'll drop the activation down to
, but I don't want to see it go so low that I can "shed the skin" and attack on the very next turn. There needs to be some challenge to get an 8/8 white beater for 
.
My thought was that yes, the "player" clause allows poison counters to be "cured". It's a narrow use though; you'd either be doing it for political reasons in a group game or finding a way to hit yourself, so maybe it just goes away. Probably does.
Red was the right fit to me as it's basically stripping away anything but the "raw" base without counters, rather than just trying to kill stuff. Yeah, sometimes it'll kill stuff, but the flavor goal for me was a crazed former army medic that "cured" things — though not always in the most ideal way. More of a deluded incompetence than a truly malicious intent. In that regard, it might have been flavorful to have made him a goblin, but I didn't think it made sense to have had a goblin serving as a Debronian army medic (relatively critical story element).
Hm. I was thinking something similar, but I don't know if wizards will start printing "damage to target permanent" or not -- currently I think they don't, but it would be a good way of letting things damage planeswalkers without saying "planeswalker" on them (which they prefer to avoid IIRC), and I think most people would understand that there was no point playing a damage spell on a non-damageable permanent.
Barring any counter-removing shenanigans, it takes an investment of 25 mana to yourself an 8/8. It might be worth it just in the Timmy-sense, that a 14/14 for 5WW is just too cool, but it almost feels like it wants to be a Johnny-card but doesn't have a significant enough reward to stimulate that psychographic.
What's the flavor behind this being in red? (As opposed to black, I guess. Not that I understand the flavor there.)
And any real need for it to be able to remove counters from players? That would seem to go against MaRo's desire that there be no modern cards capable of directly removing poison counters. Plus, getting rid of "player" let's you just say "permanent".
Not that I'd consider it a real drawback by any stretch, but there's also a short window in which to ping it to death when it's entering play.
I think it's fine, Alex. Comparable to something like Grinning Demon, which it's neither explicitly better or worse than. Good design.
Hmm. I do like cards that scale with the number of players, but the numbers seem slightly off here: Even in a duel, a 5/5 that can't block for 4 mana and 1 life seems slightly too good.