Bonepicker Skirge

Corrupted is a threshold mechanic dressed as a keyword, and this Imp is the cleanest read on what the ability was built to do: turn a fair beater into a menace the moment poison arrives. On its own, a 2/2 flyer for three mana is unremarkable, a body that clocks in the air and asks for nothing. But once an opponent crosses the third poison counter, the same stat line becomes a deathtouch-lifelink evasive threat: a two-power flier that trades up against anything it hits, blocks profitably against anything that flies, and refills your life total every swing. The design lesson is how much strategic weight a color-and-archetype gate can carry without touching the printed numbers. The card never grows; it simply changes what its combat math means, and it does so at a threshold most infect-and-toxin builds hit on their own timetable rather than one you have to construct. That deferral is the balancing act: the deathtouch-lifelink package is genuinely strong, so the ability withholds it until you have already committed to the poison plan and put an opponent well down the counter track. Reach the threshold and the flyer becomes a wall, a race-winner, and a value engine at once; fall short and you are left with a plain evasive three-drop that still does honest work. It rewards the poison deck for staying on plan without demanding anything extra to be functional off it.