Daily Card Redesign #84: Noggin Whack

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.

Island? It's broken! It makes blue mana! Here's a redesign:

There. That's better.

In seriousness, I need to click on the Random Card button in Gatherer, Wizards of the Coast's card search database, again. *click*

Redesign:

This feels more flavorful to me. When you get hit in the head with a brick, especially with a fish tied to it, you're bound to suffer a minor concussion and forget something. Also, that would hurt very much. 1 damage! Usually, black does "lose 1 life" instead of "deal 1 damage," but changing it to do damage wouldn't be too crazy for the purposes of this card.

Also, the original design had you pick and choose which cards to discard. That didn't feel right considering you're throwing a brick! An unsophisticated attack means an unsophisticated result.