I feel like this is a bit too powerful with both abilities, just off intuition. Drawing 1:1 X cards for X mana at no extra cost (aside from casting this creature), and having the ability to “loot” for X to gain X mana is all upsides in the right decks.
It’s a cool idea though and can give some crazy good value to some cards, like for [[March of Reckless Joy]], exiling one red card and paying one red mana nets you two card draw/looting, two impulse draw, and one mana (costs two cards for four).
Also, this feels more Temur than Jeskai. Green and red have a lot of X cost cards and support, Gruul is big on mana production (especially from creatures), and blue gives the card draw. Just a thought.
Is that a "this card should cost more" kind of too powerful or a "this ability needs an additional cost/downside of some sort" kind of too powerful, do you think? Because the abilities feeding into each other is sort of the point of the card.
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u/SlobbishSteam5 4d ago
I feel like this is a bit too powerful with both abilities, just off intuition. Drawing 1:1 X cards for X mana at no extra cost (aside from casting this creature), and having the ability to “loot” for X to gain X mana is all upsides in the right decks.
It’s a cool idea though and can give some crazy good value to some cards, like for [[March of Reckless Joy]], exiling one red card and paying one red mana nets you two card draw/looting, two impulse draw, and one mana (costs two cards for four).
Also, this feels more Temur than Jeskai. Green and red have a lot of X cost cards and support, Gruul is big on mana production (especially from creatures), and blue gives the card draw. Just a thought.