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2/11/2014 - Like Body Double, Face Eater is a nasty shapeshifter that's still blue as long as the context of her set is dark enough. (Could otherwise be {U}{B} I suppose.)
Note that this only eats one face; it can't reset itself every time another creature dies—so you must choose wisely which death trigger to use.
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The only problem is that Body Double is from Planar Chaos. I'd buy this as a mono-blue card on Innistrad, maybe, but not anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteNot on another Horror plane? Not on New Phyrexia?
DeleteBlue Phyrexian cards get other kinds of color bleed ("discard a card" and "lose 1 life") but don't care about enemy creatures dying-- so no.
DeleteCemetery Puca? Only using it once is a significant difference, though.
ReplyDeleteIt's unlike Body Double in that it doesn't "reanimate" a long-dead, discarded, or Entombed creature; it only copies something that is already on the battlefield, then dies. That's fine for a mono-blue card.
Cemetery Puca is massively similar, but I agree the difference is significant. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried this and Puca was just more fun.
DeleteBlue gets death triggers, so I don't think this needs to be black. Uncommon doesn't get creature copying, so this needs to be rare.
ReplyDeleteIs it unreasonable to cost this at {U}? In order to get any sort of value out of this, you have to kill something that's worth copying, which is already a pretty big hoop to jump through...and until something dies, it's vulnerable and does nothing for you on the board.
I was thinking Clone was uncommon, but I see it's been rare for a while.
Delete{U} is pretty aggressive; Probably doesn't break anything but {1}{U} seems just as reasonable.
Given that Artisan of Forms is {1}{U}, can change shape multiple times, and doesn't rely on being able to deal with an opponent's threat before it becomes good, I don't think {U} is unreasonable.
DeleteI don't think {U} is unreasonable, but for something that can become a Brimaz or Wurmcoil Engine just through the normal course of play, I don't see why we'd push it so hard. {1}{U} is still a damn good deal.
DeleteAlso, Artisan of Forms requires you to cast a spell targeting it, inviting a 2:1, whereas this requires you to kill an enemy creature, a no-risk move you'd be doing anyhow.
This is most similar to False Demise / Unhallowed Pact / Fool's Demise. Those cards suggest that 2C Uncommon is probably fine on this power-level wise-- not sure if copying makes it too complex though. It's also probably Black in the modern color pie, but I'll buy it in Blue for a dark setting.
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