Deadeye Duelist

The design idea here is a red pinger that ignores the board entirely. Most tap-to-ping bodies (going back to Prodigal Sorcerer and its many descendants) point their damage at any target, splitting duty between killing small creatures and reaching for the face. This one strips out the creature-control mode: the activated ability can only hit an opponent, one point at a time. That single restriction reclassifies the card from a defensive utility piece into a slow, grinding clock. Paired with a 1/3 body and reach, it wants to sit back, block flyers and ground creatures alike, and drip life away while contributing nothing to the offensive board state. The activation cost of plus the tap makes each point expensive enough that it is never a burst plan; it is an inevitability plan, the kind of engine that closes stalled games where neither side can push through. Reach is the quiet load-bearing keyword: without it, a defensive 1/3 that never attacks is easy to fly over, and the whole "outlast them and ping them out" gameplan collapses. With it, the body genuinely holds a corner of the battlefield while the ability does the work over many turns. It is a deliberately patient piece of red design, trading the flexibility of a to-any-target pinger for a body that survives combat and a damage source no blocker can interfere with.