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{Flo00}I'm a big fan of cards like Choice of Damnations, and this has a very similar vibe. I'm not sure how I feel about it power-wise. On one hand, you could be drawing a lot of cards for 2 mana, but you're also sacrificing creatures (which could also be an upside in most Black decks) and losing life. On the other hand, it's sorcery speed, and exactly how it plays out is up to your opponents. Comparing to a card like Corrupted Intervention just makes it an even harder decision unless you've got a specific plan ahead of time.

{viriss}A bit of a Black themed play on White's style of lockdown Auras. I like it. Simple but effective, and evocative.

{elchetibo}I would probably want to see a bit more value for my sacced lands, but a kind of impulsive, one-shot "fire breathing" effect is pretty neat.

{Sanfonier of the Night}I realize that Decayed was introduced to make Zombie token production cheaper, but even by those standards this seems very powerful for its cost. It's instant speed, cheap, hits two major card types from every player's graveyard simultaneously, and also buffs the Zombies with haste and trample? That's alpha strike territory, and maybe I'm out of the game a bit, but that seems like a lot at rare for 3 mana.

I want to be clear, it's a very cool card. I just think some levers might need adjusted.

{Idea}A pseudo-Surveil with some selective Manifest is really cool. It feels well costed, and Sorcery speed also feels right. Very well designed.

{winner}I enjoyed every one of these designs. Bravo to each of you. That said, purely from my perspective on what is balanced, I'm going to give the win to Idea, with viriss as runner up.

{Spoiler}An interesting derivative, and definitely a style of card I quite enjoy. The specific trigger here though seems difficult to set up without wasting resources to purposefully try to untap an opponent's creature, which most likely means you could've untapped your thing in the first place (though I suppose this would let you untap any permanent, which could be a boon). Aside from that, the card is reliant on an opponent having and using untap effects, which seems like a niche application unless whatever format you're using becomes that abundant in mandatory secondary untap effects. Seems like a decent sideboard card after all, though its more valuable as a combo disruptor than in itself. I can see in the name how it changes from the original to your card, and it ties mechanics and flavor well in that sense, but it's rather unclear how it relates to the image edit you used, which was the point of the prompt.

{Spoiler}First, I will say there's a reason I asked to make it clearly noticeable, and it did take a bit to find that red nose and my evaluation of this could've suffered quite a bit if I thought you just re-used the same image. Well, techinically speaking this is not two cards, but eh a modular is close enough.

I can see in the name how the card changed from one side to the other with the edit, though the card being this clown for fun I don't think is very well depicted mechanically. I guess maybe a Rakdos clown?

Balance-wise, considering Cordial Vampire, and Tattermunge Witch, I think these cards would be fine at three mana... the problem is they aren't, not really. If you ever play these at more than 2 mana, you're either struggling with your mana base or it was that valuable to you that you included it in a deck with only one of its colors. In most scenarios, these are 2 mana artifact creatures, and I don't think they are balanced at that rate.

{Spoiler}The winner of this round is Flo00 ! Overall, I think viriss met the prompt better, but the actual design of the card(s) I definitely think definitely worked better in Flo00 's entry.