You can define the rarity of a card as the rarity when it was first printed, like how they did with expansion symbols.

Very cool idea to structure the card this way, I like it. Not clear how good the "ultimate" is, but that's the sort of thing that playtesting would iron out.

I like the pun in the flavor text. "Come on." Har har har

What Link is referring to is this line:

"(A card is uncommon if it is uncommon in the set it is printed in.)"

Which I just cut. Magic 20XX was only ever intended to be drafted among a group of friends, so there are a number of cards that were a bit -un, this one one of them. That reminder text was more to stop arguments about cards that were reprinted in Magic 20XX with different commonalities, and whether or not they counted as uncommons. For confusion sake, I decided to let the cards do what they said they did, and reflected that in the reminder text.

But you're right, Link, that isn't the way normal Magic works. And while this card would never be printed, it should probably conform to the the rules as we know them. Edited, and thank you.

The reminder text on this is inaccurate as reminder text, isn't it? Formats that care about rarity don't care what rarity a specific printing holds, as long as another printing had the rarity that matters. That's why you can play your M13 Rancor in Pauper.

I like the way you think, Alex. Changed first ability to 0, changed the second to -2 and upped starting loyalty to 6, so you have to work to kill Lim-Dul early.

I like the idea of a PW with a 0 ability that scales off itself, like Marrow-Gnawer's effect. But this design makes me wonder why the +1 actually grants loyalty at all.

Maybe you could decide that a theme of Nicol Bolas's planeswalker pawns is that they should only go down in loyalty, like Sarkhan the Mad. Make the abilities cost [0], [-1] and [0] in their current order (and maybe rearrange them).

(Yes, okay, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas breaks that pattern before it starts. We could decree that he's an odd exception.)

Part of the "Who could still be kicking around as a Planeswalker" cycle, started with Serra, Resplendant and continuing into Feroz, Warden of Ulgrotha. Lim-Dûl is pushing that theme. Obviously, he was never a planeswalker in any of the stories. My plan was to explain it away as Leshrac intentionally holding his pawn back from his destiny and trapping the spark within him. Nicol Bolas, however, recognizes a time travelling Lim-Dûl spark, though, and decides that Lim-Dûl not only shows the promise of power, but he's already shown that being a peon is in his nature, so he unburies Lim-Dûl's spark.

I know, at the time, I was trying to make the 'cheapest' planeswaker I could (less color commitment than original Jace. It doesn't hurt that this guy can cost the equivalent of on round 3, if you want.) The ultimate isn't really an ultimate so much as a way to go out of control if left unchecked. I wonder if it resonates. Ulitmates might need to feel ultimate to feel 'right'.

Ah! I missed Didgeridoo! Well, I guess that settles it.

Sorry, Vitenka. The art is somewhere, but unfortunately, I'm going off of my notes, and not my card set. If I had it, I'd post it.

Also, it seem cruel for you to give these comments and not link the art.