Plague Siphon | Improved Plague Siphon

[OdinVanguard]

NAME: Plauge Siphon ELEMENT: Death COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each point of poison damage dealt to a creature heals you. : Deadly Infection - Inflict 2 poison on target creature.	NAME: Imporved Plauge Siphon ELEMENT: Death COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each point of poison damage dealt to a creature heals you. : Deadly Infection - Inflict 2 poison on target creature.

ART: OdinVanguard, created with Hexagon and Bryce7 IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: "Today the old must give way to the new" "Today, the fall of the weak shall fuel your own ascension! Use it!" Should be pretty straightforward, poison creatures to heal yourself. Fits very well into death's theme, especially the oracle quote It seems very fitting that a death elemental would grow in strength as the creatures around it rot and decay. If a player has multiple copies, each copy will heal them when poison is dealt to a creature. E.g. with 2 copies, you would heal 2 HPs for every point of poison damage a creature recieves. The Voodoo Doll combo is pretty obvious, but from what I've seen in openEtG variations, it seems like it should be quite balanced. SERIES:

[kaempfer13]

Are the systematic letter swaps in the name intentional? (It's in both upped and unupped, in upped in both words, names in the table match only the title is written normally)
Its a bit strange to give a permanent that does nothing at first such a high cost; I would raise ability cost and lower the initial cost (I would see 3 and 3 unupped and 2 upped ability cost fit). Having both CC and healing in the same card might make it a bit too easy to stall with it as this card gives you basically all you need in a stall (albeit being a bit inefficient and unusually slow).

Edit: Also I dont think the healing should stack, the quicker accumulation of poison should be good enough (balance around it if necessary, the above suggested cost was given with healing stacking in mind); the card already demands you to build around it as it is, let's not punish players for using/drawing few copies of it further.

[danil]

This looks pretty scary in conjunction with earth; protect artifact, bblood, and burrowing to stop enemies killing your health fodder sounds threatening. I'm not sure if it would actually work that well though.