Random generator gave me Phyrexian Ironfoot and Hoarder's Greed. I didn't want to have this guy come into play tapped... but I figured it was probably too good for its cc, and adding the etb meant I wouldn't have to mess with the numbers.

Also jettisoned are both snow and clash and repeating... mostly because I felt the card did enough things while representing the base cards well. I do wish I could integrate clash or repeating somehow, without just adding more stuff.

It kind of sucks that your opponent can just chump this... but it's also nice that you can just let it sit tapped on the battlefield until there's a clear board, or it would be a profitable blocker.

Alternative clash+repeating concept: Giving him First Strike and drawing and revealing one card when dealing combat damage. If card revealed cc greater than 3, ~ gains double strike until end of turn. It's cute. But, yeah, it's doing goofy stuff for the sake of doing goofy stuff. I'll have to keep the idea in the back of my head, though.

I note that this is pretty devastating with Banishing Knack or Heavy Arbalest (and amusingly infinite if you grant it lifelink as well). I remember how Sinking Feeling was always thought of as a removal spell but I always used it on my own creatures.

Possibly you could add an activation to the untap cost, mirroring , such as or .

Yeah, I knew there were bound to be too many combos with "Lose 2 life: Untap." I figured there were probably better options already in existence, though, that broke Heavy Arbalest... like Horseshoe Crab. But I suppose that a bunch of cards that are only good when combined with another group of cards is not an excuse for letting a card with a different purpose get away with it.

Oh well. At least it gives me the excuse to pull the etb tapped thingy.