Form of the Dinosaur

A wargame in enchantment form, and the design honesty of it is bracing: it sets your life total to 15 on entry, then turns every upkeep into a forced duel where you fling 15 damage at an opposing creature and take its power back in your face. The life reset is a one-time event, not a running cap, which cuts both ways: a deck sitting at 30 pays a brutal down-payment to install the engine, while a deck that has been beaten down to single digits gets a windfall. From there your life total behaves normally again, and the recurring exchange is what defines the card. The repeated 15-damage burn is enormous, enough to erase nearly anything an opponent fields, but it must have a creature to target, which is the wrinkle: against an empty board the engine idles, and against a lone fat attacker it can turn into a chip clock aimed at your own face. The asymmetry runs in both directions, which is rare for a burn effect. It reads less like removal and more like a high-variance commitment, the swing-for-the-fences red enchantment that asks you to accept a monstrous recurring trade in return for outscaling almost any individual creature. The flavor of locking into a transformation and trading blows turn after turn is written straight into the rules rather than pasted on top of them.