Every combination of this card is too powerful.
Card drawing / burn engine for 2 mana is OP.
One sided exiling Pyroclasm for 2 plus 2 burn is OP.
One sided exiling 5 damage to everything plus 5 burn for 5 is OP.
The thing is, damage from creatures doesn't kill you. State based effects do, when they check and see you at 0 or less life. Ali from Cairo is the best way to implement what you want, and that's already a card.
"For each permanent you cannot sacrifice, lose 5 life." is redundant. You can save card text space by not having it. If you can't sacrifice two permanents, you have no permanents, meaning you've already basically lost.
The following card costs N colorless mana to cast.
Paradox Myr (N)
Artifact Creature - Myr
Paradox Myr's power and toughness are each equal to its value in dollars on the secondary market, rounded up.
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Is it possible to find a value for N where this card is just barely playable?
If N=1, this card is broken, Even if it's a 2/2 or 3/3 for 1 it'll get played in every deck. It'll probably be a 20/20 for 1.
If N=10, this card is unplayable, except if there's some reanimator deck that is popular enough to drive the price of the card up. But it couldn't be a rogue deck, otherwise the card wouldn't be worth enough to bother reanimating.
Is N=3 or N=4 a fair cost for this card? Is it possible to cost this card fairly?
(To preempt the questions, yes, I know this card is unprintable, and yes I know that the foil is strictly better than the nonfoil. Let's just think about the nonfoil for now. If this discussion goes nowhere that's fine, I just figured it'd be something to talk about.)
As written the King retains all abilities of everything it copies. This causes massive memory issues and is untenable for a physical card.
If that's not how you want it to work, you need to write the card so it does what you want, without just saying you'll rewrite the rules to force the card to work. That's why nobody is talking about the card. Nobody knows what exactly it does.
Let's say I untap with Sliver Cult King, Harmonic Sliver, and Muscle Sliver. Please give an example of what I can do with the King's trigger and what abilities my slivers have after it resolves.
You're right, I edited my comment as you posted. I maintain the memory issues with this card are so complex that it becomes unmanageable after only one or two turns.
The Muscle Sliver doesn't copy anything with this wording. The SCK keeps its abilities every time it copies, so after two upkeeps SCK will have Muscle Sliver's ability twice and Muscle Sliver has its own ability just the once.
This presents huge memory issues which is why I'm assuming SCK copies only one thing at a time, but the wording doesn't say it copies one thing at a time.
EDIT: Wait, the first ability gives all other slivers its abilities. These abilities are not copiable. I don't see any way to fix this card unless it's on a computer to keep track of what abilities everything has.
The rules are weird about giving lands basic types, in that it takes away all other abilities of the land... including the one that gives it the basic land type. A better way would be:
: Add . If it's not your turn, add instead.
Note that in many games you will have more than one opponent.
I agree with the above poster that keeping subtypes free from rules baggage is a good thing. There is no need to have 6 of these in a deck.
Card drawing / burn engine for 2 mana is OP.
One sided exiling Pyroclasm for 2 plus 2 burn is OP.
One sided exiling 5 damage to everything plus 5 burn for 5 is OP.
Command Tower only taps for mana in your commander's color identity. You can never make off color mana with it.
Is it possible to find a value for N where this card is just barely playable?
If N=1, this card is broken, Even if it's a 2/2 or 3/3 for 1 it'll get played in every deck. It'll probably be a 20/20 for 1.
If N=10, this card is unplayable, except if there's some reanimator deck that is popular enough to drive the price of the card up. But it couldn't be a rogue deck, otherwise the card wouldn't be worth enough to bother reanimating.
Is N=3 or N=4 a fair cost for this card? Is it possible to cost this card fairly?
(To preempt the questions, yes, I know this card is unprintable, and yes I know that the foil is strictly better than the nonfoil. Let's just think about the nonfoil for now. If this discussion goes nowhere that's fine, I just figured it'd be something to talk about.)
If that's not how you want it to work, you need to write the card so it does what you want, without just saying you'll rewrite the rules to force the card to work. That's why nobody is talking about the card. Nobody knows what exactly it does.
Let's say I untap with Sliver Cult King, Harmonic Sliver, and Muscle Sliver. Please give an example of what I can do with the King's trigger and what abilities my slivers have after it resolves.
This presents huge memory issues which is why I'm assuming SCK copies only one thing at a time, but the wording doesn't say it copies one thing at a time.
EDIT: Wait, the first ability gives all other slivers its abilities. These abilities are not copiable. I don't see any way to fix this card unless it's on a computer to keep track of what abilities everything has.
Note that in many games you will have more than one opponent.
I agree with the above poster that keeping subtypes free from rules baggage is a good thing. There is no need to have 6 of these in a deck.