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{Idea}Interesting use of exalted. Good synergy between the two halfes. Can probably go pretty crazy in the right deck.

{pernicious}Lol. As if constructed wasn't pay to win anyway. Makes a good statement about the nature of games where you have to spend money along the way.

{vizionarius}A nice mirrored pair. I think I would like them more as separated cards. Then again that goes for almost every non-land MDFC WotC has printed so far...
The black side seems stornger than the white side. An opponent losing life happens in (almost) every game, you gaining life is somehting you have to have the right cards for. Of course, it's kind of nice, that Birihani doubles her p/t every time she is in combat.

{viriss}Simple & effective. Seems quite strong for just 2 mana.

{Jartis}Interesting ability. Repeated reanimation on a land sounds pretty strong. I can't really decide if its good or not that this can basically flicker a creature.

{lordpat}Anti-poison tech O.o
Jokes aside, this does look good but not too powerful in a good way. The devotion-heavy cost make it pretty hard to complete the cycle of night and day.

{winner}Idea
2nd place goes to Jartis

{Spoiler}While I'm not personally a fan of the watermage needing to be blocked to trigger the ability (if this happened whenever she was in combat, as in blocking also, then I wouldn't have a problem, but as a 1 power creature it just seems too easy not to block her or to block her with something you don't mind being tapped anyway), I do think the card's cost is balanced for the effect. I think, outside of the proposal to change the effect, I probably would've had the card be a 2/3 but otherwise it's a pretty good entry.

{Spoiler}I like the approach of wanting to make a party planeswalker, I love it when more obscure mechanics gets explored or helped in some way. It's also nice that there's these distinct but strong effects accompanying the "summoning" of the different party members. What I don't like though is that an effect like "you gain 1 life for each creature" is at the same loyalty cost as "deal 5 damage to a creature or planeswalker". One of these is a buffer that can be difficult to set up and matters less the more you're actually able ot pull it off (if you have that many creatures are you really taking that much damage), while the other is the potential to remove the best card they have on the board. I also have a bit of a problem with a mythic rarity, four-color, four-mana planeswalker being unable to sustain itself due to only having negative loyalty abilities and no means to gain more loyalty. Maybe it's meant to work with being your commander, but then that would carry the weight of an incremental cost mechanic you're purposefully trying to impose.

{Spoiler}I think saying this card underestimates its own power level is an underestimation itself. +X/+X at the price of X+1 on an equipment is already decently good. Of course it's not gamebreaking or even that good, but it means you get a flexible boost of power and toughness and it won't go away just because a creature was removed. There aren't many examples of this kind of effect to show for direct comparison, but the closest is Sigil of Distinction, a rare that only has that kind of effect and grows smaller with each use.

However, the real kicker is the mana adding. Let's ignore for a second that redlink works with noncombat damage as well. A vanilla 1/1 equipped with this at 3 mana is a 3/3 that generates a free Pyretic Ritual every time it attacks. A Fencing Ace equipped with that same Sword of Lady in Red has the potential to deal 6 damage and generate 6 red mana. Buffs might more than pay for themselves, and uses of stuff like fights could give you repeated triggers in a turn. All this and I'm pretty much only touching the basics, and all of this is on a card that will stick on the board even if the creature dies.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the concept of redlink and all the great synergies this card has. My problem here isn't with the concept, my problem is this is way too underpriced for that kind of potential. Even as a mythic rare. If I were to make a suggestion changing the contents though, perhaps make it so redlink only works with combat damage.

{Spoiler}I've got no complaints here it's a simple but well-designed card with a little buff above standard power and toughness for its cost, but also a downside that will probably be relatively simple to solve on any decks that runs the card. Perhaps given the effect it should be white-red instead, which doesn't seem off-flavor for what you've made her be like either, and my only other nitpick is I feel to see the need to lock her activated abilities when she has none.

{Spoiler}Not super sure of the flavor here, but I do feel this design is quite nice. There's a simple and evident synergy with white within this card, and within its abilities. 3 mana and uncommon rarity both seem really fitting for the card.

{Spoiler}The victor is pernicious closely followed by Flo00 !

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