Gaze of the Gorgon

Most regeneration spells offer pure damage control: pay the mana, save your creature, walk away even. This one weaponizes the save. Regeneration is the entry fee, not the payoff; the real effect is a delayed reprisal that fires at the next end of combat, destroying every creature that blocked or was blocked by your protected one. The result is a combat trick built on the math of a single exchange. Attack into a stalled board and the opponent's blockers commit to what looks like a profitable trade: the regenerated attacker shrugs off the lethal damage, and the destruction clause then sweeps away every body that lined up against it. Hold it on defense and you can block freely, regenerating your wall while the attacker that ran into it is marked for death at end of combat. The shield matters precisely because the clause does not care which direction the blocking went: it catches blockers and blocked attackers alike, so the only guaranteed survivor is the creature you already paid to keep. That is the tension worth admiring. The hybrid pip lets either half of a black-green deck cast it, suiting a color pair built to grind combat into attrition rather than race on tempo. And because it lives in hand at instant speed, the punish stays invisible until it lands: a read on the opponent's block becomes a one-sided exchange. Entirely dependent on the fight happening, but in the right combat step it cashes one defended body in for an outsized swing.