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Perfect Wish XN
Effect - Lost - D - 4
Create X Mind Gems with "1, Forfeit this Gem: Draw a card."

This Card Game I'm inventing uses a deck of EXACTLY 100 cards, and your Main Deck also doubles as your life total, so when you lose life you Exile that many cards from the top of your deck. Whoever has their deck totally depleted loses the game, and the winner is the last player with at least 1 card in their deck.

This Card is a card engine, as each Faction has a different type of card engine. This card is for the "Life" faction.

Honestly I'm pretty sure this is a "6" I think it's slightly too good to have 4 copies per deck, and so I think I would need to restrict it to two copies per deck eventually, but it's borderline. I could print it as a 4-of and then if it needs to be restricted to 2 copies per deck later, that's not a huge deal. This card won't necessarily win you the game immediately, but it could win the game over several turns if the opponent doesn't have an answer soon.

How to read the card.

"Perfect Wish" is just the name of the card.
"XN" means it costs one Energy and X generic Resources to Deploy.
"Effect" means it is a "normal Effect" which can only be Deployed during your own Main Phase.
"Lost" means the card goes to your Lost pile once it resolves, most effects are "lost".
"D" means it is "Double Rare", or twice as Rare as a Rare.
"4" means 4 copies per 100 card deck are allowed.

Please note, Unlike Wizards of the Coast, I am very careful about not designing anything that can get a turn 1 or turn 2 kill nor an Infinite Combo of any kind.

My Design Goal:

Aggro > Counters Control.
Prison > Aggro
Counters > Prison
Counters > Combo
Combo > Aggro

Now honestly I'd like those 4 basic strategies to be as balanced as possible, but realistically it won't be perfect on the first published edition.

I have 6 Factions and they are all reasonably balanced. At least, You'd need to be a TCG Expert to know the difference.