Exiled Boggart

Most black two-drops at this size hand you a small bonus for the slot; this one hands you a small tax instead, a death trigger that strips a card from your hand right when you'd least want it gone. The discard isn't a cost you pay up front or a resource you fuel an ability with: it's a toll the body collects on the way out, inverting the logic of the self-discard cards that want you pitching fodder on your own terms. Here the pitch is involuntary and badly timed, firing exactly when you'd rather be emptying your hand onto the board, not into the graveyard. That makes for a strange tension, since this is plainly a body built to be traded or thrown in front of an attacker, yet sending it to its death costs you twice: once for the creature, once for the card it strips on departure. The math only ever balanced inside aggressive Goblin shells that wanted bodies on the board regardless, where a creature that gets in for a couple of swings before dying turns the parting discard into a rounding error. Strip away that context, where the type line and the attack step matter more than card economy, and the trigger reads as pure liability, a reminder that black's discard theme can cut toward its controller as readily as away.