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Hmm... You're definitively right about the "win with it on the stack" problem. I'm pretty sure that I missed this the first time around. That's rather unfortunate... I thought I solved "drawing a card as a cost", but I guess I didn't.
As it stands, 20XD6 is meant to be drafted, while it could be busted in a lot of formats, this card gets less impressive if you are only here to draft it. But I understand the argument that this feels rare, so it should be rare. Bumping a largish creature down to uncommon and sliding this guy into rare.
Hmmm... Maybe if I flipped the two abilities? It's still insane, but now the amount of cards drawn is controlled, at least, by the toughness of all creatures in play...
Wow. It's just about possible that a Greed without the mana payment is printable, but it should definitely be rare.
Amongst the risks: any instant-speed win combo can be done with 120 life loss worth of triggers on the stack; similarly Seismic Assault. "You can draw as much of your deck as you like if you can win with it at instant speed" is a pretty hair-raising thing to print.
(It's also pretty mad with Peace of Mind, but that's just a fun combo rather than madly broken.)
On a side note, every now and then someone plays with the 'bad' creatures in their main deck. I've seen players pack Mons's Goblin Raiders in mono-red fast builds, and I've also seen people pack Sea Eagle because they just need another evasive creature. I haven't seen anyone use the Quirion Trailblazer main deck, but I have a hard time imagining someone not trying it. It's probably the most useful of the 5. I almost was forced to stick a Pearled Unicorn in one of my draft builds because I had so few creatures, and not enough 3 drops. I've yet to see someone maindeck the Dripping Dead, though. That guy is terrible. He's a fun card when you wish for him, but that's about it.
Yeah, I know. Out of context these 5 cards are going to look really weird. Strangely, they may be some of the most powerful commons in my set.
I've got a lot of cards in 20XX and 20XD6 that Wish for 5 crappy creatures from Magic's past. When you draft the sets, you draft these cards in order to put them in your sideboard, not your deck. When I made 20XD6, I've been looking for ways to spice this up. In order for the theme to keep working, there needs to be the same 5 dumb creatures in the timeshifted slot. Otherwise, the strategy begins to be too hard to build around. Even with a guaranteed crap creature in the timeshifted slot, its a tricky strategy to pick up on. You kind of have to get lucky. Players have a tendency to snatch these things up at about 5th pick.
Oh wait. Never mind, I think.
...huh. Okay.
Those flip tokens just sit on me wrong. I'd think about adding Transmuting Goblin/Sea Eagle, but there's no way to express this is happening unless I tell my drafters that there are two pieces of paper in the sleeve. Annoying.