Exiled Doomsayer

A hatebear in the most literal sense, a small white body whose entire purpose is making one mechanic miserable: the face-down 2/2 that flips into something larger. The tax it imposes is precisely targeted. It does nothing to stop a morph from hitting the table (the three-mana cost to cast face down is untouched, as the reminder text takes pains to clarify), but it strands the payoff. Flipping a morph is a tempo play, a combat trick wearing a vanilla creature's body; add to every unmorph cost and that surprise either never arrives or arrives a turn late, with mana the opponent can no longer spare. The flat surcharge bites unevenly, which is the clever part: a cheap unmorph that was meant to fit alongside a curve play now eats the spare mana whole, while the bigger flips simply slip out of reach for another turn. The fragility is the other half of the bargain. A 1/2 falls to almost any removal, so an opponent can answer it before flipping, which quietly turns the card into a removal-spell tax of its own and hands the morph deck an out. It is a design from an era before sideboard hate routinely came stapled to a usable body, narrow by construction and unapologetic about it, an answer aimed at a format-wide habit rather than any single card.