Farbog Revenant

Skulk and lifelink share an unspoken contract: the damage only lands if the creature connects, and skulk is the keyword built to make sure it does. The math runs opposite to intuition. A 1-power body with skulk can be blocked only by creatures of power 1 or 0, which means the bigger and beefier an opponent's board gets, the cleaner the route through stays. What answers it is not size but low power: a lone hatebear, a spent mana dork, any small body the defender can keep back is enough to wall this Spirit, and there is nothing evasive about it against a board that happens to run wide and cheap. The 1/3 frame is tuned to survive the exchange it invites: the toughness carries the Spirit through combat with those small blockers and past most one-damage removal, while the low power keeps the evasion honest. Lifelink is modest per swing but compounds, so every uncontested point is also a point of life, and a creature that reads as a minor clock quietly becomes a two-sided drain the opponent can't profitably ignore. The reward is deliberately small, and that restraint is the whole design. This is an attrition piece dressed as an evasive beater, a Spirit whose job is to tick the life totals apart one point at a time, slipping past exactly the big blockers a heavy board wants to rely on.