Original Card: The Dark Barony

So, two things. I'm not sure how to cost this card... I know I want it to be splashable, because this card follows a long line of cards like Nightmare that slowly warp new players into adding more and more black to their deck. I'm just guessing at a cost of 4, though.

Second, I figure 'cast two black cards' is about the best I'm going to get at 'Whenever chaos is rolled'. I kind of like how the card changes gears when facing down a mono-black deck as well. Gives the card some legs.

I think the second ability should be symmetric. "Whenever the second black card is cast each turn, each of that card's owner's opponents discard a card."

Huh, interesting. I didn't do that because of the whole "Wizards doesn't print a lot of cards nowadays that could randomly hurt you", like Goblin King. (I guess it's a little more confusing, too, but that doesn't bug me that much.) But I'll happily switch over if someone else agrees with Dude (or keep it as it is if more people prefer the way it is written.)

I think either the second ability should be symmetric, or the first ability should be asymmetric. ("put into an opponent's graveyard", for example.) The inconsistency between the two is the problem to me.

Man this would be brutal to follow up with things like Memory Sluice or Glimpse the Unthinkable.

I suggest "spell" rather than "card" too. Spells are the only things that are cast, after all.

We'll change to Dude's wording then. I'd rather not change the wording of the first line if I don't have to, since it's the exact wording on The Dark Barony.

But, oof, I did not notice what happens when mill comes up. In the middle of my 'CTRL-C + CTRL V', it didn't occur to me that this card says 'anywhere' on it. Upped the cost by . I don't know if that's good enough, but I'm already afraid I hamstringed this too much for limited play...

Spell it is. Thank you, Alex.