Baneblade Scoundrel // Baneclaw Marauder
A blocking deterrent dressed as a body: the front face punishes any defender foolish enough to gang up, shrinking each blocker by a full point of power and toughness the instant it becomes blocked. The design logic tracks the werewolf transformation exactly. By day the creature reads as a beater that discourages chump-and-gang defense, since throwing two small blockers into it risks trading them both down. Flip it to night and the same combat math gains teeth: now every blocker that dies (usually to the 4 power of the night side, not the -1/-1 alone) drains its controller for a point of life, converting a defensive block into a life-loss engine. The night face rewards the aggressor for the exact behavior the day face already discouraged, so a defender is squeezed from both directions across the day/night axis.
The wrinkle is how the transformation conditions reframe the card's threat assessment. It becomes night when a player casts no spells on their turn, which is precisely the passive posture a control opponent might adopt against a stalled board; the reward for their restraint is a scarier attacker on the other side. Where most werewolves simply grow, this one changes what a combat step means: the day side is a math problem that discourages blocking at all, the night side is a punishment for having blocked. It is a self-contained expression of the werewolf template's core tension, an attacker that gets worse to interact with the less you interact with the game.
