[necro kinda creature]

[Trollstorm]

[necropotato]

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card and lose one life.
1/1



Current Wording:

[unnamed]
4B
Whenever <this> comes into play, or is put into a graveyard from play, draw a card and lose one life.
3/1


what do you think, too strong, too weak? perhaps double black limiting it's splashability? anyone have an idea for a name? I'm no good with names.

[dandan]

Haven't Wizards just done a creature like this (except a 3/3 for 1 mana more, draw a card and lose a life for each Zombie)?

I think I'd rather have the 3/3 for 4 mana than a 1/1 for 3 mana. Making it a 1/1 for 2 mana is probably too good (better than Phyrexian Arena?), as the ability is a lot more powerful than the creature. Phyrexian Rager is a 2/2 for 3 mana that gives you the card and the life loss right away. Those too are probably better than your 1/1 for 3 mana. Perhaps if your card gave you a card and life loss when it CIP and when it leaves play. That would actually be pretty strong but probably OK as Solumn Simulacrum exists.

[Trollstorm]

Hmm. I'd forgotten about the zombie. maybe BB so it's not splashable?

1BB for a 2/2 that potences for 1 when it CIP and leaves play?

[dandan]

I actually meant 2B for your 1/1 but with CIP and LP draw a card and lose 1 life. If you can get rid of it (ideally for some gain) that is still 2 cards and 2 life in addition to the creature.

Making it a 2/2 makes it strictly better than the Rager and I consider Rager a good card (think of it as Night's Whisper but you pay 1 colourless to play one of the 2 cards you draw as a 2/2).

[Matt]

Necropotato is an awesome name.

[Ephraim]

I think that this needs to cost at least . It's definitely better than [card]Phyrexian Arena[/card] and probably worse than [card]Graveborn Muse[/card]. Note that the Muse is theoretically better but can also kill you pretty darned quickly if you're not careful with it.

[Trollstorm]

Updated to reflect new ideas.

[Jacob Orlove]

You should be able to combine those abilities.

[Ephraim]

This still seems quite a bit better than Phyrexian Rager. For more, you're getting the same creature with the added benefit of a card when it does. On the other hand, I see this card as an uncommon, which would put it at a midpoint in utility between Phyrexian Rager and Solemn Simulacrum. I also would not mind seeing it cost and being a 3/1 creature.

Possible names:
Necrotic Familiar (Creature -- Zombie)
Recluse Familiar (Creature -- Spider)
Mephidross Toad (Creature -- Zombie Toad)
flavour text: Like their frogmite cousins, the toads of Mephidross preyed on blinkmoths. The Moriok knew of techniques to extract viable lymph from the toads' tainted flesh.

[Toad]

Zombie Toads :<

[dandan]

Zombie Toads cannot block creatures from Portal

Ephraim - How does a Graveborn Muse kill you? If you draw a shedload more cards than an opponent and still fail to win, you deserve to die. I play Muse in friggin multiplayer and you just need a few Drain Life effects to make survival a reasonably likely scenario.