Umm, Idk, I would rather like this to be along the lines of Rebuff the Wicked and Hindering Light. counterspells ftw.

Oh hey, I've made this exact design myself years back without the life loss rider. A big fan of the design.

Lel, that's the type of rules text that easily makes one go ".. but Spiders aren't Insects" unless/until you realize what's happening here is part of the MTG rules lango formating.

­Meddling Mage limited to noncreatures with a Peek attached to it seem to me actually even more than meddling mage itself.

I wager you're spinning it as sort of a pseudo discard temporary exile effect in the vein if Kitesail Freebooter? Eh.

Why is it ? This is a mix somewhere between Sublime Epiphany and Cryptic Command design-wise.

This seems super meh. Am I missing something here? Wouldn't Darksteel Ingot just generally be a stronger include in one's deck? Is this specifically for the limited environment here?

I've played around with some designs that add mana at the start of each main phase - maybe that's something to look into?

That's combo fuel nearing the level of something like Bolas's Citadel - so I would speculate that this possibly would have more impact on formats legacy+ rather than say modern.

Would modern-legal reprint of Ruination or From the Ashes be equally viable "solution"?

I've seen a lot of llanowar dorks giving blue mana - personally my favorite custom card variant of it is a 0/2 Turtle I saw many, many years back.

This would be the first red card ever to give power debuff. It's a really weird effect for red to have, being the color aggression so suggesting opponent not to attack - where usually does the opposite of forcing attacking - is contrary. Even with the countless cowardly cards has had over the years, including the Coward/Warrior idea, they have always focused on making creatures less able to block, which technically still encourages attacking by exclusion. Power debuffs rather are seen in enchantments, such as Dampening Pulse, which makes sense as indeed one of the antagonistic colors of - one reason being the tendency towards aggression.

I do get the flavor obviously, but where this has been utilized before, without the Warrior/Coward callbacks, is in with cards like Public Execution and perhaps more relevantly Suicidal Charge which is also .

Idk, I guess one can just put it under the Form of the Dragon category who knows. It seems quite possible you would be able to pair the coward/warrior callback with some effect which is in-pie for .