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CardName: Zodan, the Patriot Cost: RWU Type: Planeswalker - Zodan Pow/Tgh: /3 Rules Text: [+1] Until the beginning of your next upkeep, whenever a creature attacks you or Zodan, Zodan deals 2 damage to that creature's controller. [-2] Target player shuffles a random permanent he or she owns into his or her library. [-7] You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature deals damage to you, gain control of that creature." Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Mythic
Zodan, the Patriot
   +1 Until the beginning of your next upkeep, whenever a creature attacks you or Zodan, Zodan deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.
-2 Target player shuffles a random permanent he or she owns into his or her library. -7 You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature deals damage to you, gain control of that creature." 3
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Someone commented that he felt more like an anarchist than a patriot, but what's more patriotic that hurting your enemies, or converting them to your cause?
All three abilities seem rather weak. The -2 will usually hit land, and okay, repeatable land destruction is a bit too good for this to cost -1, but it still doesn't look good at -2. The +1 is all right, but I don't think I'd particularly want to play this card just for that. And the -7 is pretty good, but I'm not sure it's worth 4 turns of +ing this guy.
Could I bump up the numbers to make it more exciting, having him deal 2 damage and shuffle in two permanents? Or is that a lost cause?
2 damage makes sense to me. The +1 is decidedly weaker than Chandra's first first ability... and there are going to be plenty of times when you will be getting no advantage from it besides the loyalty counter. Maybe if you did that and reduced this card to
it would be par for the course? The -2 doesn't need two permanents, though. 4cc spells shouldn't hit the table and kill two lands... that's fine as is.
Making it 2 damage syncs it up to Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, in a way. That's nice.
Yeah, that pair of changes make this look rather nicer.