Is this an issue you have specifically with this card or with the whole cycle? I was trying to do an exile version of the Judgement Incarnations, but your point is entirely valid.
There's also... oddness here with regard to things like Cascade. Technically, if I cascade past this and into Blast from the Past, this is exiled at the moment I'm casting the Blast, so I can get double mana for paying its buyback or kicker costs. But then this immediately ceases to be exiled.
It's mostly with this card, but with the rest of the cycle to a lesser extent. A personal Heartbeat of Spring costs 6 (Mana Reflection), where a personal Levitation costs 4 (cf Wonder / Shroud of Tempests), and I don't have much of a point of comparison for the others like Shroud of Fury - Hellrider, maybe?
Is this an issue you have specifically with this card or with the whole cycle? I was trying to do an exile version of the Judgement Incarnations, but your point is entirely valid.
Buh! A free Mana Reflection if you can just exile a card from your hand or library? That seems completely crazy.
SadisticMystic is fond of pointing out Demonic Consultation and its variants (Divining Witch, Plunge into Darkness, Spoils of the Vault, Tainted Pact as easy ways to break this kind of thing in half any time anyone suggests it. And there's assorted kinds of absurdity with Chrome Mox, Vine Dryad, Sacred Guide, Arc-Slogger, Selective Memory, False Memories, Nourishing Shoal... The root problem is that exiling is meant to be removing cards; getting massive powerful effects like this from something that's meant to be just gone is just asking for trouble.
There's also... oddness here with regard to things like Cascade. Technically, if I cascade past this and into Blast from the Past, this is exiled at the moment I'm casting the Blast, so I can get double mana for paying its buyback or kicker costs. But then this immediately ceases to be exiled.
first half changed from "target crit can't block this turn"
remove first strike counter
Original second half was "target creature blocks this turn", but that's . New design may be overpowered...
proper costing for mono-red, cf. Blind-Spot Giant
Not targetting any longer. It's intended to act as kind of an additional cost and those don't target.
Well-spotted. As I see it, I can either make it 3w (I misremembered the ox's cost) and follow your suggestion, or make it an additional cost here.
As I have only one CMC4 white common (a 3/3 semihybrid) but more CMC3 than I need, I,ll go for the first.