Arisen Gorgon
A 3/3 for three whose entire strategic identity is gated behind a single named permanent: the deathtouch stays dormant until a Liliana planeswalker hits the table, at which point the body flips from a fair-rate beater into a wall that trades up against anything on the board. This is lord-adjacent payoff design, where a creature's keyword is conditioned on a permanent the deck already wants, so the upside costs nothing extra in the shell that earns it and never materializes anywhere else. The tell is that the static ability checks control of any Liliana at all, not a specific one, which keeps the card relevant across every printing of the character rather than tying it to a single version. Its combat math is the whole appeal: while the switch is on, every block and every attack becomes a one-for-one against creatures no matter how large, the gorgon's stare turning size into a liability. Without a Liliana it is a plain 3/3 with a line of text that never fires, a conditional payoff bolted to a commander of the dead rather than a creature built to stand alone. Designed for the player committing hard to a planeswalker-centric black shell, and safely ignored by anyone who is not.
