Dauthi Mindripper

Shadow turns the unblockable clock into a delivery system, and this is the Dauthi that weaponizes the delivery. The mechanic's premise is that shadow creatures fight in their own combat lane: virtually no opponent fields a blocker, so the swing lands. What this card does with a guaranteed connection is convert the attack itself into disruption rather than damage. You point it, the hit is assumed, and then you cash the body in to strip three cards from the defending player's hand. The sacrifice clause is what prices the effect: a 2/1 evasive body is a real asset, and the card asks you to spend it entirely to fire the discard, so the trigger is a one-shot rather than a recurring tax. The window matters too. The discard resolves off an unblocked trigger in the Declare Blockers step, only after no shadow blocker has been declared against it, which means the only ways to deny the effect are to put a shadow creature in the way or to kill the attacker before the trigger resolves, since without it there's nothing left to sacrifice. Tempest's black shadow beaters mostly aimed their evasion at the life total; this one bends it toward the grip instead, the rarer and more interesting thing to do with an attack you already know will connect.