Do you want me to be able to activate this with X=5 when I have 0 or 1 citizens? At the moment I can, and I just sacrifice all the citizens I can, which is none. If you want to require the sacrifice, it needs to go before the colon, like this:
If this existed in most Magic sets, it would warp half the table into going mono-black. I remember how that used to operate in Urza's Saga, where both Pestilence and Corrupt were printed at common. You only needed two of them, and the rest of your deck could be terrible. This card = same thing. Play on round 4, swing on round 5, 6, 7 and force your opponent to keep chump blocking. Could be fine at uncommon, I supppose...
Whoa. 4-mana shades have traditionally been 1/1, like Hoar Shade or suchlike. The only shade with power equal to its CMC was Nantuko Shade, a tournament-level rare. This probably isn't as good as that, but still looks very good for a common.
Uh this card is like strictly worse than Raging Goblin.
I mean it doesn't even hold up to the type test.
Blinding Mage is a perfectly reasonable tapper. It was the standard for a long time (Master Decoy).
You could have a 2/2 tapper for
- see Whipcorder - but it might be less likely to be common.
This was made when Blinding Mage, not the Lawkeeper, was the norm.
I would much rather have a Gideon's Lawkeeper. What if it was a 2/2, or a 2/3 for
?
Do you want me to be able to activate this with X=5 when I have 0 or 1 citizens? At the moment I can, and I just sacrifice all the citizens I can, which is none. If you want to require the sacrifice, it needs to go before the colon, like this:
, 
, Sacrifice X Citizens:
Ah yes, sensible change. Now it's still scary, but the controller needs to kill all your blockers.
One problem: this is now a red card with a red ability.
Still a potential bomb, but most chump blocking kills it.
If this existed in most Magic sets, it would warp half the table into going mono-black. I remember how that used to operate in Urza's Saga, where both Pestilence and Corrupt were printed at common. You only needed two of them, and the rest of your deck could be terrible. This card = same thing. Play on round 4, swing on round 5, 6, 7 and force your opponent to keep chump blocking. Could be fine at uncommon, I supppose...
Whoa. 4-mana shades have traditionally been 1/1, like Hoar Shade or suchlike. The only shade with power equal to its CMC was Nantuko Shade, a tournament-level rare. This probably isn't as good as that, but still looks very good for a common.
Sensible mirror of Child of Night, like Omega Myr to Alpha Myr.