Dirge of Dread

Evasion you can slot into a deck without spending a card on it. The headline effect, mass fear at sorcery speed, reads like a clunky Overrun substitute, but the design is built around the alternative: cycle it for a card and hand a single attacker fear on the way out. That second mode is the real job. A go-wide black aggro deck rarely wants every creature gaining fear at once; it wants the one creature that matters to connect, and it wants to refill while doing so. The era's cycling cards were full of dual-use designs, but most cycled into pure card advantage. This one cycled into a relevant board effect, which made it a free roll: dead in your hand when you flood out, except it never quite sat there, because the worst case was still trading two mana and a card for a fresh draw plus a targeted evasion push. The fear-on-cycle trigger targets, so it doubles as a way to slip lethal past a single blocker at instant speed during combat, a window the full sorcery-speed mass effect can never reach. The asymmetry between the two halves is the entire point of the construction: the expensive, board-wide mode is the floor nobody pays for, and the cheap, surgical mode is the reason to run it.