Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

Discard has always struggled as an attacking mechanic because it runs out of gas: in a duel, one hit empties a hand, and after that the trigger fizzles. This design solves that by paying you back twice over. The attack tax hits every opponent, and the moment any of them has nothing left to pitch you convert the whiff into a card draw, so an empty-handed table becomes a refill engine rather than a dead trigger. Discarded lands sprout flyers, which turns the resource attrition into a board, and lifelink on a 4/4 evasive body means every swing is also stabilization. The death clause is where the two halves lock together: killing the God does not answer it, it upgrades it. On the flip, Temple of the Dead is a black source that waits for the exact condition the front side manufactures (a player reduced to one or fewer cards in hand) before it can flip back into the threat, a sorcery-speed loop that rewards the discard plan for having done its job. The whole card is built as a self-fueling attrition circuit: the front side strips hands and builds tokens, the back side sits as a land until hands are empty, and death is the hinge that swings it from one mode to the other. It is a modern-flavor read on the transforming God frame, where the mana value buys not a single threat but a resilient two-sided machine that punishes the exact game state it creates.