Elusive Tormentor // Insidious Mist

The trick this card pulls is splitting protection across two faces so that neither half is ever fully exposed. As the Vampire Wizard, it is a 4/4 with a built-in escape hatch: pay one mana, pitch a card, and slip into the Mist before a removal spell or combat block can connect. The Mist face is where the real defense lives, carrying hexproof and indestructible while being unable to block or be blocked, which means targeted removal whiffs, board wipes glance off, and combat simply ignores it. The cost of that invulnerability is that the Mist does nothing but slink in unopposed; it cannot trade, cannot defend, cannot interact with the board at all. To threaten damage it has to attack unblocked (which it always can) and then pay to flip back into the 4/4, exposing itself again precisely when it wants to deal damage. That oscillation is the whole design: the creature is only ever vulnerable on the turn it chooses to be, and only ever a threat in the same window. The discard requirement on the front face ties its evasiveness to a resource you actually feel spending, so the protection is real but never free. It is a study in how transform can serve as a defensive timing tool rather than a value engine, letting a fragile body survive in a world full of point removal by simply not being there when the answer arrives.