You can destroy up to three target creatures. He only gets exiled if one of the creatures you choose to destroy is not attacking. If you destroyed 1 or 2 attacking creatures, he would stick the board. He would also stick the board if you destroyed no creatures.
I would actually argue that this card is too powerful to print in standard. 5 mana instant speed destroy up to three target creatures is already really strong. Doomskar costs 5 mana and destroys all creatures, even your own, and it is sorcery speed. Devastating Mastery costs 6 to destroy all permanents, including your own, and is sorcery speed.
With this card, you could theoretically at instant speed destroy 3 attacking creatures, block a 4th creature, and heal for 2, then have a 2/4 lifelink on the board, all for 5 mana.
This is a joke card so I kept the rules simple. If this was a real card, I would add "For each creature destroyed in this manner, it's controller investigates" to bring it in line with cards like Fateful Absence. I would also have to seriously debate if it should be bumped up to costing 6 (3WWW), but maybe add first strike as well because 6 mana is really slow.
For 6 you can have a pretty powerful effect. Somehow, I'd try to leave the body behind more often so it's more of a creature. Right now, feels like a weird instant.
Thematically the idea is that he is destroying these creatures in self defense. If it is not justified self defense, he gets exiled (a.k.a. punished).
If you compare this to 5 or 6 cost sweepers, this card is almost always better, unless your opponent is using some kind of token deck that makes tons of little creatures. Fateful Absence is 1W, instant, destroy target creature or Planeswalker, it's controller investigates. This is like casting Fateful Absence 3 times for 1 less mana and 2 fewer cards, and your opponent gets no clue tokens. And you get a 2/4 with lifelink most of the time.
Should be destroyed if he cannot destroy 3 creatures, since if Kyle wouldn't have destroyed 3 creatures he would be dead. That balances it.
Eh, he technically only killed two people. That's why I made it "up to three".
Oh yeah. Damn.
Oh, and then there was the nigger who kicked him but he missed 2 shots.
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