Card of the Week Contest #307: Time for a new twist

Boogymanjunior - First of all, the abilities on that card are some really slick design. I love the way it forces opponents to consider whether to punish you up-front or save your mana. That said, I think that trying to use the potential to get punished as a cost reduction is a mistake. What happens if someone actually brings him out on turn three? Or worse, ramps and gets him sooner? Especially in a 1v1 match, the punishing aspect wouldn't be worth the shut-down, and meanwhile the caster is getting a super early beatstick either way.

First of all, thank you very much!
I both disagree and agree- I would say that the punishment potential should indeed incur a cost reduction because at best, the opponent can simply choose to not punish if they think their lands are too valuable, but they can also choose if they deem it fit, while you get nothing out of it. This is an unambigious drawback and thus should be met with an unambigious cost reduction. I actually figured in the possibility of turn 3 or turn 4 and would disregard ramp because ramp is supposed to increase the pressure which applies to almost every card.
However, even though I figured in the early turn possibility in regards to the cost reduction, I now see that the card is too strong. So I agree with your underlying objection to the power level, and thank you for your help!
While I don't want to amend playability/rarity altering properties of already posted cards when it was someone else's keen eye- to not better myself on other's behalf- I now would have changed it to a 5/3. This way, it would still retain an imo valid cost reduction while being less powerful due to increased vulnerability (even on turn 3).

Yeah, that's kind of the crux of my issue. Outside of specific formats, it's at best a strong, undercosted creature, and at worst a massive swing early in the game, with the potential to snowball into an unassailable lead (especially if the caster has more than one in hand).

One thing I think you're forgetting, Boogymanjunior, is that while the potential to get punished is normally worth a cost reduction, a creature that freezes all your opponents' lands when it comes into play would normally warrant a sizeable cost increase. To balance that out, you'd either need to limit the secondary effect (Maybe only freeze lands tapped to pay for the first effect?) or add some additional cost or condition that prevents/punishes playing it at a time when it would otherwise be all-upside.

Cheap removal with downside by giving the dead creature an upside.

I can't figure out how to put a color indicator on my card. I click on the left side of the type bar and tick the box with the blue circle, but it won't appear...

If you're using the Mainframe template, it's in a dropdown menu on the Style tab. Standard M15 template it's kind of overlaid with the type text, so you'd need to click on about the N in "instant".

Other than Mistbind Clique, there is no flash and champion combination, but this is meant to be used defensively.  Flash it in, save a creature, bam.  Then again, it could also be a decent beater if you need that too.  

-Not sure if Mistbind's existence means this isn't "new" (designed before I saw it, though!)
-Yeah yeah it's a bad card, I know.

Edit: Feel better daij, and the extension enabled me to participate here so hey, it all worked out!

kefke Thanks again. With this challenge being postponed and me having designed an alternative even before I designed my first entry, I'll allow myself to try this one.^^
Although the postponement reason is not a good one- hope you get well soon Daij_Djan !