Card idea: Open the Gate

Suoli wrote: If you're creating a card to specifically make Herald playable I think you might as well make a playable version of Herald. Otherwise you're forcing every future demon ally to be balanced with Open the Gate in mind, potentially restricting design space.

Suoli wrote:

Ankha wrote:

Suoli wrote: If you're creating a card to specifically make Herald playable I think you might as well make a playable version of Herald. Otherwise you're forcing every future demon ally to be balanced with Open the Gate in mind, potentially restricting design space.

You can also replace "demon ally" by "Herald of Tophet" in OtG.
But I don't really care for an hypothetical future design space for demon allies...

Or:

Herald of Topheth Tophats
Type: Ally
Discipline: Daimoinon
Cost: 3 pool 1 blood
Requires an infernal vampire.
Demon with 5 life. 3 strength, 1 bleed, flight [FLIGHT].
Move Herald of Tophats to the ready region when recruited.
The Herald may enter combat with a ready minion controlled by another Methuselah as a action. The Herald may play cards requiring basic Daimoinon [dai], Potence [pot] and/or Presence

 as a vampire with a capacity of 5. Any cost in blood is paid with his life. If a card would give him blood, give him life instead. If the Herald has less than 5 life during your untap phase, add 1 life. During your influence phase, burn 1 pool or burn the Herald.

 As above, and untap this vampire.