Eldrazi Monument
A token tax dressed as an anthem. The blanket grant (a stat bump, evasion, and indestructibility across your whole board) reads like a finisher, but the upkeep clause is what defines the card: every turn you keep it, a creature dies, and when the bodies run out, the Monument goes with them. That sacrifice trigger is the engine, not the drawback. It turns a static team-wide buff into a clock that runs in both directions, rewarding the wide board that can afford to feed it while punishing the board that can't. Indestructibility is the load-bearing word: it walks your team through wraths and through blocks that would normally trade. The notable gap is that it does nothing against edicts, which force a sacrifice and so bypass indestructible entirely, the same way the Monument's own upkeep does. The cost is paid in the same currency the card protects, which is the elegant part. A go-wide deck flush with disposable creatures gets a wrath-proof alpha strike for as long as the tokens hold out; a deck that overcommits with nothing to spare watches its own upkeep dismantle the board it just made unkillable. The tension between "indestructible forever" and "one creature per turn, no exceptions" is the whole design, and it is why the card sits permanently on the knife's edge between a token deck's payoff and its undoing.





