Black Draw Engine

[GerryMander]

Black Card
{B}
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you do not control a nontoken creature, you lose three life.
Sacrifice a nontoken creature:  Draw a card.  Use this effect only if you control one nontoken creature.



First card in a REALLY long time, so bear with me as I try to get back in the swing of things.



CURRENT WORDING:[/U]

Black Card
1BB
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you do not control a nontoken creature, you lose three life.
Sacrifice a nontoken creature:  Draw a card.  Use this effect only if you control one nontoken creature.[/B]

CHANGES:[/U]

[Matt]

Sacrifice a nontoken creature:  Draw a card.  Use this effect only if you control one nontoken creature.

You don't need the whole "use this" clause, since if you don't control a nontoken creature, you can't pay the cost, and so you can't play the ability anyway.

[Nibble]

Sacrifice a nontoken creature:  Draw a card.  Use this effect only if you control one nontoken creature.

You don't need the whole "use this" clause, since if you don't control a nontoken creature, you can't pay the cost, and so you can't play the ability anyway.

I think the idea is that you can only use it when you have *exactly* one creature. So you'll always go down to zero creatures, and be forced to play a new one or suffer the life loss.

[Anusien]

Then why not have an ability that would prevent it.  Something like:
"If a creature would come into play under your control and you control one or more creatures, instead put it into the graveyard."  The only thing that could get around that is Control Magic effects.

[GerryMander]

I wanted the effect to work only when you have one creature so you can't get all nimbly-bimbly with it and make this a broken card.

Unrestrictive draw engines will eventually turn degenerate.