Daily Card Redesign #111: Midnight Banshee

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.

Redesign:

I heavily enjoy that "Mourning Banshee" sounds like "Morning Banshee," which would mirror "Midnight Banshee."

There's dead guys in the art, which would refer to how the banshee is wailing and hurting others. But what if it was wailing BECAUSE of the dead creatures? As if it was crying out in mourning? ...And that's how I came to this.

Its ability only triggers off of your own creatures because that's what the banshee would be sad about. And it only triggers once each turn because I didn't want degenerate recursive-ness to occur due to the fact that the effect can also trigger the condition of the ability itself.

And, of course, because this has wither, the creatures it affects will be permanently afflicted by the banshee's scream.