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CardName: Headstone Cost: W Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: When Headstone enters the battlefield, draw a card. When Headstone enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard. Flavour Text: “Your headstone is the last page in the book of your life.” —Murat, Death Speaker Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Common |
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Original Card: Headstone
This could easily be a functional reprint of Cremate, and that's what I was planning to do at first. I don't like the idea of functional reprinting, but sometimes that's what the card wants to do, I guess.
The only real problem is that headstones... well, they don't exactly scream 'Instant Speed!' I tried to come up with a sorcery speed cremate... but doing that required adding something else... and that required adding something the card never did before. I just couldn't come with anything that just involved playing with the numbers. (Lose 2 life, draw two cards, exile a graveyard card for
, for example. At this rate, I'm pretty far from the base card...)
Eventually, I landed on making this an enchantment. And since this is slow graveyard removal as an enchantment, I figured it worked better as a white card.
It's kind of weird, admittedly, just sitting on the battlefield (New Mirrodin would have loved this card, what with it wanting a 'clean graveyard'.) I also thought of adding the word "Imprint --", but I'm sure most people wouldn't appreciate/think the joke was funny.
FWIW, I quite like this version, even though I agree it's slightly odd to have a headstone as an enchantment, and to have an enchantment that doesn't do anything. It could be "exile until" to justify white+enchantment, but that probably complicates the card too much.