The Name Game (Vol. II)

{wapulatus} Threaten meets Prey Upon is a pretty cool and absolutely flavorful design. However, as it can kind of be used as a Blood Feud ripoff, that card shows how undercosted your version really is. So yeah, the costs definitely needs to be increased – but then you get an awesome card.

{Flo00} Using this card in another game, which has already been judged, allowed me to make sure I wouldn't miss something obvious when ready your card – because I really didn't get what „similar mana costs“ was supposed to say. Did you really want to go for the “Adamant not restricted to a specific color“ approach? If so, I like the idea of having a Quest focussed around that theme, even if your „payout“ doesn't really feel like it connects well with said theme or the card's name in a flavorful way.

{Boogymanjunior} I love Mana Leak. I seriously do – even if WotC nowadays is afraid of it and has therefore powered it own to Quench. Being able to hit abilities as well is a really nice addition I wish we would see more of. Nothing else to say really – I love this card even though I don't think WotC would print it at this rate currently (as they seem to be rather wary of taxation effects recently).

{ameisenmeister} Big Gruul fatty with a very unique downside – interesting. We have had a few creatures with a fight on ETB ability, but never has this been used as a downside granted to your opponents' creatures. I do think the card probably reads cooler than it will often actually play out in the end – as the random aspect of the fighting (while reading hilariously) will most likely disencourage your opponents from trying to take down your creature unless they can be pretty sure they'll end up being victorious in the end.

{Tesagk} I feel like there's something wron with the wording here. Did you want to say “If that spell is countered this way“ or did I miss something? Assuming that's what you wanted, this really is an interesting design. I like the idea of getting two mana back this way as a kind of „fixed“ Rewind (I know that card technically isn't broken, yet it's take on free spells in general actually was) – even though with this and the lifegain on top your card seems to be rather undercosted compared to other lifegaining conterspells like Absorb or Fall of the Gavel. Personally, I'd prefer to either focus on the dependent lifegain or getting some mana back (preferred the latter as it's the more interesting concept imho) to end up with a cleaner design.

{And the winner is..} Boogymanjunior – congratz to the win!