Daily Card Redesign #70: Sludge Strider

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

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Today's card:

Redesign:

This card is like Essence Backlash but with a body! The black part causes loss of life and with the toughness part of the creature spell instead of the red damage and the power part, and the white influence is the necessary flash ability to enable possibility of countering.