Less problematic than dredge. :)

If you swap the "instead" and "you may", you don't need the other clause.

The front page says Goblins as a tribe are blue-red for this.

The other points stand though, and blue-red doesn't seem like the natural place for this to go. I assume this is a top-down to pay tribute to the Boggart flavor of taking stuff.

This mechanic has very many changes that could be applied to make it less problematic, but w/o info on what the design parameters are, it's hard to pick the best alternative.

Reminds me of Draining Whelk more than Mystic Snake.

I feel a creature should always be able to get the counters - a spell where the creature is dependent on actually countering the spell I'd create a X/X token.

Yeah, they've explicitly mentioned the Gravedigger loop being problematic in Limited

Mm. There's a reason why Gravedigger isn't common anymore. I presume it was because Wizards was getting sick of the Gravedigger gets Gravedigger strategies. It's not broken, really. It just tends to bend whatever limited environment away from whatever Wizards is trying to mold.

More efficient and flexible Gravedigger for green. First of, I think this is too powerful, and second, this is problematic at common since you can loop just two of them together + you know, it generates card advantage so the traditional red-flags apply to it as well.

It's an interesting tension - both effects are pretty meaty, but you only get one.

The effects do seem to be on the wrong halves of the cost though, yeah.

Yeah, the big creatures actually also are more of a green thing. And I also immediately thought of Gifts Ungiven. That kind of effect doesn't fit on half a card, does it?

I like the idea of split cards using anagram names :)

These particular names sound sortof like they should be and rather than and . I can see the justification for them being this way, but Gifts Ungiven is blue, and most snakes are green.

uncommom split cards

• hyphenated words
• hybrid mana
• two guilds share a color