Would this be Overpowered if it were a real card?

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• TrippleBoggey3

  November 2016

  I'll break it all down to you:
  
  First, you have a typo, and a wording issue, but I think you know what I mean.
  
  Uranium Myr's 1/1 adds 1 mana to begin with. His boost ability is really weak, so we'll add 1/2 a mana. Infect is another 1/2 a mana, so now we have 2 full mana. His last ability is pretty powerful, but it will at most be 6 mana as an instant, and given that it's a triggered ability, I'd say add 5 mana to that cost.
  
  Now this card is 7 mana. When a card is 7 or more mana, we pay an over-mana cost so we will take 1 mana away, making it 6. But since it is a rare, we'll have to minus an additional 1/2 a mana. That makes 5.5 CMC
  
  As a result, you can either make this a powerful 5 CMC card or a not so powerful 6 CMC. Don't always over exaggerate the mana cost.
• DomriKade

  November 2016

  @Mellenius
  I think the most important thing here is that as long as there are 10 permanents around when you play this thing (which there probably would be), as soon as it leaves the battlefield the game ends in a draw because everyone dies from poison. I imagine that even if you're trying to build some strange Glacial Chasm type damage prevention combo, this would be terribly unfun to play with or against. So it's not so much overpowered as unplayable. For revision, I'd consider the intent of the card. Presently, each element wants to go in a very different direction.
• unicornsareevil13579

  November 2016

  I would suggest lowering the MC and changing the last ability to it deals damage equal to it's power to each creature and then damage to each player equal to the number of creatures that died under their control. I think this allows you to win rather than killing both of the players and also rewards you for they +1/+1 counters.
• KJMartin

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  @TrippleBoggey3
  
  That's an atrocious way of judging how balanced a card is.
• strongbelieves

  November 2016

  It's actually not overpowered, at least compared to similar cards. The main problem is that any player can use it to force a draw at pretty much any time which is really, really annoying.
• DomriKade

  November 2016

  @KimJongMartin
  That's atrocious grammar
  
  I was following @TrippleBoggey3 's method up until we got to rarity, then he lost me. A system like this is beneficial when trying to determine CMC but I think the values used here are way off. Of note, rarity is more often a measure of complexity and efficiency than strictly power. I'm not a huge proponent of linking to other forums but THESE TWO articles drastically changed my perspective on valuing cards and their costs. I'd highly recommend them. If the mods decide the links need to come down I'll remove them.
• strongbelieves

  November 2016

  He's right in that a good way to determine what a card costs is to compare what the aspects of the card cost by referencing other cards. If you're making something where and you don't know how to cost it because it is pretty unique, break down what it is and what it does and figure out what everything usually costs. The only thing is that before you do any of that, you should generally look at cards that compare wholly instead of piecemeal. Blightsteel Colossus, Child of Alara, Bearer of the Heavens.
  
  However, no cards in all of magic force a draw... Intentionally.
• unicornsareevil13579

  December 2016

  The way I find a mana cost is start at a random amount.
  
  If you wouldn't put it in a deck lower the mana cost a bit, Then think if someone played this against you would you yell "WHAAAAAAAt" if so increase the mana cost a bit.
  
  Repeat until you find a middle ground.
• strongbelieves

  December 2016

  I have to correct myself since was for some reason revived. There are cards in MTG that force a draw. They're on the reserved list, are terrible and are never coming off. Nothing like that will be printed again either.