Broken Visage

A removal spell that pays you back with the corpse, but only as a momentary blocker. The destroy half is clean: instant-speed, no-regeneration kill aimed at an attacker, which means it sidesteps the sorcery-speed limits that hobble much of the era's edict and combat-trick removal. The Spirit token is the wrinkle that defines the card's logic. You are not gaining a permanent creature; you are borrowing the dead thing's stat line until the next end step, when the token sacrifices itself. Because the spell can only target an attacking creature, you are typically casting it during an opponent's combat phase, and the token evaporates that same turn, so the body it leaves behind usually amounts to a stopgap within the one turn it exists. The design intent is a fog with a fang: blunt an alpha strike by killing the biggest attacker, then keep a same-sized blocker on the board to soak the rest of the swing before it disappears. The whole package is priced at five mana for that instant-speed flexibility and the temporary body, which reads expensive for a one-creature answer. The token scales with whatever you destroyed, so the card rewards pointing it at the largest attacker rather than the cheapest. It is a window-trick more than a value engine: the token expires too fast to build around, and the nonartifact clause shuts out the era's artifact creatures, but as a defensive instant that converts a threat into a stopgap wall, the structure is coherent even where the rate never justified the slot.