Oh no, now there are two.

[Limbo]

Ok, how about for something completely different, and still somehow a little bit the same:

Dolly's Legacy
Legendary Enchantment
1UU
If you would draw a card, you draw two cards instead.
If you would discard a card, you discard two cards instead.
If a spell would deal damage to you, it deals twice that damage to you instead.
If you would gain life, you gain twice that life instead.

Solves the rule problems, while in effect still having covered most effects that I intended to reach in the first place. Makes it better in some cases, and worse in some cases. I intentionally left out doubling creature damage.

[PucktheCat]

Matt:  If you agree that the rules issues could most likely be overcome, either by an addendum or simply with careful wording, then the issue is whether the card is good for the game or not.  Yet this entire thread, with only a bare few exceptions, has skipped this question entirely and focused on the rules issues.

If an idea works intuitively the rules issues can nearly always be resolved.

Leo

[Upinthe]

Split cards, Mindslaver, Serum Powder, gold cards, and a number of older cards all “don’t work in the rules� as they existed when these cards were first imagined.  Does that make them bad cards?  They all required changes or addenda to the games rules to work.  The new Ravinca mana requirements will need something similar.


Leo

This has nothing to do with any of that. Cards with all those mechanics still worked with old cards. This proposed card won't even if you add to the rulebook.

[PucktheCat]

Of course it would.  Now you're just being silly.

Leo

[Nova442]

EDIT: my bad I missed some posts.
EDIT2: Apparently not, the circle of life continues.

Puck, we simply can't give feedback on the mechanic until you define what it can DO.  Right now it makes sense to you alone and only in some situations can everyone agree that this card "covers it".  Define the rules first, then we will be happy to go to step 2 which is "is this card good for the game, balanced, etc."  How could we tell if the card would be appropriately costed if we don't know what it will do?