Welcome back! Today we have a powerful early creature that comes with a steep drawback... but if your opponent gives you enough time and space, you can turn that drawback into card advantage.

The mana value for this creature is three. But I haven't locked it into a color. Either an artifact creature or a black creature seems most obvious to me. But I could see an argument for red or maybe straight colorless too. Had this card drawn two cards when it entered the battlefield, I'd argue for Blue as well, but as it stands right now Blue would only be appropriate in Planar Chaos or maybe New Phyrexia.

Anyhow, what's the card's name (and color and creature type)?

Trojan Horse - Cost

Artifact Creature - Construct

A lot of other names on the same theme could be good, but I took one from Greek Mythos because I'm basic.

"Cursed Idol"

­ Artifact Creature - Statue

­Book Moocher -
Creature - Tiefling Rogue

Hmm, something something Zedruu wants you to have this. So this is an Erlundi something.

So the only thing that fits as a name, for me, is a gift of nnowledge. Literally knowledge, that you gift. I guess you could file the serial number's off of Prometheus, losing knowledge afterwards isn't quite the same as having your liver eaten, but that's a serial number...

And... well, they already did Chained to the Rocks but... Ooooh. Looking a little deeper, methinks they wer already thinking along these lines. Warden of the chained is a minotaur. Clearly, the chained one is both our prometheus equivalent and Zedru's patron.

So. I kind of want to go the reversal path here, and have the creature be a giant liver-eating eagle; who daily has its memories set on fire.

The creature name should probably try for iconic: The Chained One.

Colourwise - black is indeed the obvious one. Lots of "Power now, pain later" cards in black. But I really want this playable in a Zedruu deck. Really cannot justify this in white, which leaves red and blue. Birds aren't red, sometimes they are blue. But blue both doesn't do things this big (usually) and anyway has better card-draw options.

So with great reluctance, . Although is really really tempting.

My first thought for colour-plus-flavour just based on the mechanics was to make this blue Phyrexian. JMG kinda simultaneously raised and dismissed that possibility, but, well, I'm going to enter it anyway :P

So this is a:

Serum Distiller
Creature - Phyrexian Vedalken Wizard

Ha! Shame on me for poo-pooing any idea. My role is supposed to be host/moderator, not critic. :D

Voting is up! Click on this link to vote on your favorite name!

Alex wins this week, so we're painting the creature blue. XD See everybody in (((NTC #074)))!