Daily Card Redesign #134: Mortician Beetle

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:

There's a bunch of creatures in Rise of Eldrazi that level up. Here's a creature that can sap level counters from creatures to get stronger. As a bonus, it stands on its own outside of the set and can leech off of (typically) other +1/+1 counters. But it can also take away those -1/-1 counters on creatures of yours. Quite the interactive little bugger.