Yeah... there's like 20 something comments on here outlining how others feel about Combustion Man not being a color pie break, and being a Punisher. The Scryfall tagger also shows the many other such cases of Punisher effects for comparison.

TL;DR - Combustion Man is a Punisher effect in Red, and is not a break.

Phyrexian Incinerator

Creature - Phyrexian Horror

Menace

Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, this creature deals that much damage to each creature the source's owner controls.

5/5

I considered giving it Haste or First strike, but Haste felt a bit too busted. I guess you could read the card with Haste instead, but /shrugs.

Repeat on either making a different interpretation for Red, make the Green "Obliterator/Vindicator", or make a Colorless Phyrexian Obliterator instead.

Thanks for checking out my Isshin deck here and on Moxfield!

Frontline Deserter

Creature - Human Soldier Survivor

Skulk

Protection from Battles

Whenever another Soldier you control leaves the battlefield, you may draw a card. This ability only triggers once per turn.

1/2

Create another card with protection from something unusual

All of the suggestions here are pretty spot on. I've had an Isshin tokens deck in my lineup since 2022, and experienced similar deck-building conundrums in its earliest days. I have a few general suggestions, as well as a couple for more specific cut considerations:

• For decks like these, it's ideal to keep the average Mana value on the lower end. This helps set up quicker starts and makes it a bit easier to rebuild your board after eating some removal. I'd generally recommend looking at your 5-8 MV range as the first place to focus for cuts, as others suggested through more specific cuts.

• I think you can cut Crowded Crypt as something on the cheaper end. To build off my last bullet, cards at the 3 MV slot should be impactful enough to warrant them competing to be cast on curve instead of your commander. This will come from getting more reps with a deck. I make this suggestion for a few reasons: Crowded Crypt is a bit slow at 3 MV, it taps for 1 color of mana in a tri-color deck, & its activated ability is okay. I'd recommend swapping in another 2 MV rock like Talisman of Hierarchy or one of the others in Mardu Colors, or Rakdos Signet and others in Mardu colors.

• Since Zurgo cares about your token creatures dying, here are a few sacrifice enablers that help your game plan & are within budget: Plumb the Forbidden is an awesome instant to draw from, and Fanatical Devotion is a pretty cheap free sac outlet that also helps protect your more important creatures. Scapegoat is also solid as budget board protection and sac enabling.

• Neyali, Suns' Vanguard could be a potential swap with Mentor of the Meek. For an additional , she gives your token creatures a decent key word and also provides some card advantage from the impulse draw effect.

• Starry-Eyed Skyrider could also be a solid swap for a suggested cut.

Thank you Asder, that was a fun prompt. I wanted to make something that flavorwise felt unsettling, but not necessarily eldritch.

Pseudopod

Creature

Null (This creature has no subtype and cannot gain subtypes)

: Pseudopod cannot be blocked by creatures with exactly one subtype until end of turn.

: Pseudopod can block up to two creatures that have exactly two colors in their color identity this turn.

: Target creature with exactly three colors loses all abilities until end of turn.

: Place a stun counter on target creature for each creature subtype that creature has.

The Pseudopod was an unnerving creature. No one could agree on what it reminded them of, or what they each found unnerving about it.

2/4

I wanted to riff on creatures like AEtherling, Morphling, and the others.

Repeat, create another creature without any creature subtypes, or your own take on Asder's original prompt.

Kindred Cannibal

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling

Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

Put a flying counter on this creature if the devoured creature had flying. Repeat if any of the devoured creatures had menace, trample, first strike, deathtouch, lifelink, or vigilance.

3/3

Create a changeling that cares about creature types that your opponents control.

Also, looking at one of my Tenth Edition Holy Day and physically feeling a handful of my beard hairs suddenly turning grey. My my, I am growing rather h'weary.

I think another reason White doesn't really need fog effects, in addition to what's been stated already, is that it also has a suite of proactive means of slowing down aggro through Stax pieces like Authority of the Consuls, Charismatic Conqueror, and Blind Obedience to name a few. Add those Stax to the plethora of instant speed removal, wide board states, and being primary for First Strike, then Fog effects aren't as needed.

A Blessing

Instant

Choose one:

• Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

• Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.

• Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

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In Disguise

Instant

Until the end of your next turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Passable Pedestrian.

Repeat, make another split card where one side is an Aura. Bonus points if you use an idiom for the name.