Cephalid Snitch

This Octopus has exactly one job: peel a static keyword off a creature for one turn so an otherwise-dead black removal spell can finally connect. Sacrifice it, and the chosen creature loses protection from black until end of turn, just long enough to point a Terror or a Snuff Out at the fattie that was, a moment ago, untouchable. It is fixed answer-tech aimed not at a spell but at a keyword, which is what makes it so peculiar: most enablers want a clock or a value engine, and this one wants nothing except a single window of vulnerability. The design is hyper-specific in the way the black-matters era loved: a color was handed a tool to address its single structural blind spot, then the tool was kept fragile and one-shot (a 1/1 body, a sacrifice cost, a single target) so it could never become a default. It belongs to a tiny lineage of protection-stripping effects, several of them color-locked the same way, blue and black sharing a problem black could not solve alone. The body asks nothing and offers nothing; the whole value sits in that one-time strip. What keeps it a footnote is the narrowness of the activation: protection from black has to actually be sitting on a creature worth the kill for the sacrifice to mean a thing, and outside that exact corner the card simply does not do anything.