Purpose Claimer
Creature- Shapeshifter (M)
You may have Purpose Claimer enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it gains "At the beginning of your end step, exile each other permanent that shares a name with this permanent".
0/0 "Your path is worthy. Your path is mine."
Devised this creature to effectively serve as a better Duplicant. I originally designed this card with a CMC of 4 but realized that it is non-targetted, non-boardwipe removal that isn't named Council's Judgment... which struck me as a bit problematic. I feel that this is the appropriate CMC to put the effect and don't feel that the ability is too oppressive (feel free to correct me on either count if I am wrong) but I wanted to check if this sort of end result is something that should be avoided as a matter of card design principle.
As a one-time exile clone it would look about right but that ability to lock away similar creatures is very powerful. I'm not sure if it's worth an extra mana but it would feel safe at 6CMC. Though if you make it only exile the creature it clones then the triple colored cost makes 5 feel ok. Rather than gain an ability that repeatedly removes creatures with the same name just tack on exile to the clone effect. "You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. If you do, exile that creature."
Thinking a bit more it looks fairly troublesome with animated lands. I would completely scrap the repeated exile and go with just the single exile.
Creature- Shapeshifter (M)
You may have Purpose Claimer enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it gains "At the beginning of your end step, exile each other permanent that shares a name with this permanent".
0/0
"Your path is worthy. Your path is mine."
Devised this creature to effectively serve as a better Duplicant. I originally designed this card with a CMC of 4 but realized that it is non-targetted, non-boardwipe removal that isn't named Council's Judgment... which struck me as a bit problematic. I feel that this is the appropriate CMC to put the effect and don't feel that the ability is too oppressive (feel free to correct me on either count if I am wrong) but I wanted to check if this sort of end result is something that should be avoided as a matter of card design principle.
Thinking a bit more it looks fairly troublesome with animated lands. I would completely scrap the repeated exile and go with just the single exile.