Daily Card Redesign #156: Mind Funeral

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

ORIGINAL:

REDESIGN:

First, the name. This looked like a dump where minds/memories were being wasted. Therefore, Memory Dump. Also, "memory dump" is a term related to computers!

So, this card has been redesigned to still mill. Why? Because I took a look at Alara Reborn and saw that there are three milling cards, yet; two are rare and one is uncommon. Since I'm redesigning the uncommon, to support a Limited strategy, I determined that keeping this card a milling effect is very important.

Next, I always wondered why the heads in the art all look the same. That's when I thought: hey, what if they're all just about a single creature - a single creature's memories? And because these heads look like they're dead, I decided that the flavor is that when this one single creature dies, all of its memories get purged out - in the form of its controller getting milled, of course, but yeah.