MTGNexus

• The creatures do not need to be tied in terms of flavour; likewise, the activated abilities might have absolutely different effects, they only need to have the same activation cost.
• Mana cost include symbols, so is not the same mana cost as , for instance.
• Remember to add rarity.

Subject16 - Cylian Outcast is a good concept but could use numerical tweaking - this seems completely not worth it unless you're discarding a 5+ power card or doing something degenerate. Elvish Ringmaster is perfect, no notes.

slimytrout - Unfortunately neither of these are uncommon. Blue/Blackbeard looks like fun and is flavorfully quite funny although the actual minigame aspect could be frustrating. Issini is totally neat - could be lots of tricks here.

kwanyeegor-ii - Orangutan Shaman has good design space - I like the ratcheting up and down of the damage based on the artifact size and the broader concept. SFII is a funny reference to the older card but like Spark Fiend the joke of being overly wordy makes for not a very elegant card.

1. Subject16
2. kwanyeegor-ii
3. slimytrout

The outcast is very weak -- there are plenty of 2-mana 1/1's that produce 1 or even 2 mana without the cost of discarding a card. I suppose in a madness or reanimator deck maybe it's ok, but I still think it could be pushed more without breaking those decks. The ringmaster is much more fun, although it could probably use some more clarity about what happens if it's touching multiple creatures.

Lecturer is clever -- red gets to return instants and sorceries, while white gets to return artifacts and enchantments, so the only thing missing is planeswalker which is an acceptable bend. The stats are a little weak, but the ability is quite strong -- in fact, given the existence of Soulfire Grand Master and its use in some infinite combos, probably too strong, especially on an uncommon. The Boomographer has a *lot* of text (in fact, more rules text than can even fit on a card without including flavor text), so even if it does seem like it would play in a fun way, I feel like it would be too much for a lot of un-set players.

The orangutan is cool, but I have a couple of issues with the Spark Fiend -- first, players don't tend to like cards with unpredictable drawbacks, and the fact that this has several of them would be a big turn-off for a lot of people. Second, a big part of the joke of the original Spark Fiend was that you were playing the dice game craps ('spark' backwards, phonetically at least), but this new version doesn't seem to really resemble any dice game that I've ever heard of.

1. Subject16
2. kwanyeegor-ii
3. void_nothing