MTG Combo: Rancor + Shattergang Brothers

kengiczar on Sometimes i just think of …

8 years ago

So I've got this sweet custom card idea that I wish had been in standard:

Name: Jace, Vyrn's Prodigy
Cost:
Type: Okay you see where I'm going with this right?

All joking aside:

Name: Xenagos' Despair
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Type: Enchantment - Aura
Text: Enchanted creature gets -X/-X where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield. If enchanted creature would be put into a graveyard return this card to it's owners hand.

I think if Xenagos does come back he'll be a little more wicked than he was before. The card is like the total inverse of Rancor + Xenagos, the Reveler. You need your opponent to have many creatures to kill their big creature, it shrinks instead of grows, and it only goes back to hand if the creature dies which makes it a little more balanced compared to things like Shattergang Brothers + Spreading Algae or Rancor + Shattergang Brothers . All in all I would not play this card and I would not pick it in draft. But still, it's flavorful and balanced, the type of thing WotC likes to put into their uncommon slot.