Alirios, Enraptured

The Narcissus myth rendered as a lockstate: the 3/2 Reflection you conjure enters ready to swing, a better attacker than the 2/3 that made it, and controlling that Reflection is precisely what keeps its maker asleep. Alirios comes down tapped, and while you control a Reflection it skips its own untap step, staring while the game moves past it. So three mana buys you one live attacker and one prisoner. The interesting play is to reframe the Reflection from a creature you keep into a resource you spend: sacrifice it, and with no Reflection on the battlefield Alirios untaps normally on your next untap step, giving decks that already treat their own bodies as fuel a delayed 2/3 they choose when to collect. Note what does not free it: blinking Alirios only re-triggers its entry, spawning a second Reflection and guaranteeing it stays down. Note also what the lock does not cover: the clause only stops the untap step, so any effect that untaps Alirios at another time wakes him even while a Reflection lives. The welding of flavor to rules is tighter than most myth-to-mechanic translations manage: the enchantment of self-regard is not decoration, it is the tension of the card. Alirios asks you to destroy the more beautiful thing you made in order to rouse the maker.