<BB> Toasty's Battle Board: Cayli Artana

"Oh, poor thing. Out here in the woods, all on your own. So... helpless..." For a moment, you see a similar hungry look flash across the woman's face. "Come on. I'll get you all fixed up."

Reap the Meek  
Instant - Revelation
Exile target creature card from a graveyard. If it had mana value 3 or less, create a token that's a copy of it.
Coalesce
Deathtouch
2/3

Battered Warrior This card eliminates one of the main issues of recursive threats by making it be creature-neutral. However, I think it can definitely still be quite powerful (in the right deck, of course). Two of them can loop in a funny way, too. I like it! 8/10 

"Oh, I'm sorry! How rude of me. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Cayli, and I'm so happy to meet you." Cayli smiles, and you can see the glint of sharp teeth in the shadow of her face. "What has done this to you? Was it a dragon? A baloth? Some horrible creature that creeps up behind you in the night with its many eyes and long claws and... Oh my, I got lost in thought for a moment!" She looks oddly excited by the whole situation.

Seek the Forgotten Ones 
Sorcery - Revelation 
Mill four cards, then return up to one land card and up to one creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Coalesce
Seek the Forgotten Ones's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control plus the number of land cards in your graveyard.
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A Pound of Flesh Wow, this is scary. Against any control deck without countermagic up, this basically rips out their whole hand. Countermagic does 2-for-1 yourself, though. This is a really cool design, but it scares me a little too much to give it full points. It might be ok, but it makes me nervous. 7/10

Cayli seems to realize something. Her posture shifts, and the shadows spreading around her disappear. "Oh, I'm sorry. I can be a bit frightening... but you know I'd never do something to hurt you, my dear little cat. Now, tell me more about the thing that attacked you. Maybe we can deal with it together."

A Tentative Alliance
Sorcery
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. If you control a Horror, it also gains double strike until end of turn.

(I used Sudden Reclamation as a reference for my previous card, but you're right, there's too much upside.)

Doomed Wayfarer Seems great. I can't think of any problems with it. I'd love to use this card. 10/10

"Well, a shadow can typically be driven off by light, and ghosts tend to be dispelled by holy magic. Do you know anyone who deals in that kind of magic? I, myself, tend to work with beasts of the night, rather than against them." Cayli pauses for a moment, perhaps thinking about how much to say. "I actually came here searching for one such creature. Perhaps our little adventure will lead me to it."

First of the Forgotten
Creature - Horror Shaman
Deathtouch
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
2/3

Doer, Disgraced Hunter A cooler, more feline Rotting Regisaur. These cards are always more fair than they seem at first glance, and I think this would be a very fun aggro or midrange threat. 10/10

It was not an every day sensation, but Soumaw knew it well. The feeling of hunger, or something close to it, as close as it could be to it. The urge within its body moved it to hunt, and the need for greater power yet had it seek out prey worth the time. Owls hooted in the woods near the ruins, accompanying the twilight in announcing the coming of the night. This plane was a confusing one, with night and day being uncertainties... as was everything else. Still, a tell tale sign, typical though it might be, brought with it some welcome assurance.

The unexpected always comes amidst the common, however. In a distance not far away, Soumaw spotted a somewhat familiar glow, and feeling that resonated in its spark. It rushed in the direction, climbing ruined stairs to find a faint green light emanating from a nearby tower. It knew the sensation... but it seemed far too easily found to be what Soumaw suspected. Nonetheless, it could not pass by even a remote chance that the tower's glow was, in fact, a guidestone from the prophecy.

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(Consider this is a gift, I suppose)

The guiding stone had a guardian? Or alternatively, even if there was no guiding stone there, then the guide could be a clue. After all, that feeling in the spark, as far Soumaw knew, was unmistakably unique to the guiding stones. Unfortunately, much as it would be convenient to interrogate the 'guardian' right here and now, communication wasn't quite Soumaw's forte. Words from the prophecy should ring some bells if silhouette was indeed related to the guardian stones, however.

"Hidden... Home... Beyond touch... Distant sights... Distant paths... Meet..." Soumaw pulled back a little, eyeing the way the shadows were moving with suspicion, but nonetheless proceeding with the recitation. "To find... To be found... Lone traveler... Everywhere... A piece..."

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Nearly a one-sided fog, milling cards instead of taking damage is definitely an interesting dynamic, especially knowing how cards like Golgari Grave-Troll were often used just for self-milling purposes. So it's definitely a strong card, but at rare rarity, only working once and giving your opponent a slight degree of control, the card is overall just a pretty great design.

I'll give it a 10/10.

The... cat? A feline creature, could it be referring to the one that had escaped Soumaw? The 'guardian' knowing of them was unexpected, and Soumaw almost went along with those words for a moment, but something simply felt too wrong about it. What could that creature Soumaw simply happened across on a hunt have to do with what it chased after? It didn't even seem to handle a spell, let alone anything remotely approximating the mysterious guiding stones. But Soumaw couldn't be so dismissive. If the "cat" was indeed what would lead it to its goal... Then it was much more than a snack. It was imperative they be devoured, absolutely and totally, to incorporate the key into Soumaw.

That being said, Soumaw wasn't about to so easily give up on a guiding stone so close by. It was almost in reach, Soumaw could almost taste it so much did it tug on the spark... Soumaw's feet and hands seemed to form into puddles on the ground, absorbing green and black mana, and small shadowy tendrils erupted all over its body as it expanded. Soumaw then roared and charged, each limb grown enormous and spawning a number of long powerful tendrils in the direction of the guiding stone.

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I would probably reduce the coalesce cost, but otherwise I think the card is pretty good. I think the board-wipe effect interacting with the continuous sacrifice is an interesting bit of self-synergy on the card, though the card also feels very oppressive, which doesn't seem all that fun, but then that's more a matter of taste I suppose. I'll give the card an 8/10.