Caligo Skin-Witch

The 1/3 body is the real product here, and the kicker is the upside you cash in later. A two-mana wall that blanks early aggression and trades up against most one-drops is the floor; pay the additional cost when the game has slowed and one card doubles as a Mind Rot stapled to a blocker. That split is what makes the design clean: a hand-disruption spell that costs nothing extra on tempo if you cast it cheap, and never rots in your hand the way a pure discard spell does once both players are topdecking. Black has always paid a premium to strip cards from a hand without giving up board presence, and the kicker structure resolves that by letting one inclusion occupy two different roles across the curve. The toughness is what holds the early role together: at 1/3 it survives the small-creature combat math that a 2/1 or 1/2 would lose, so it stays relevant on defense even when you never have the mana or the reason to kick it. It is not a card that wants to be flashy; it wants to be the flexible slot that does something useful regardless of how the game develops, which is exactly the brief for this kind of midrange disruption creature.