Gurzigost

A 6/8 for five mana is an obscene defensive wall, the kind of body that stops a ground assault dead. What complicates it is the upkeep tax: every turn, two cards leave your graveyard for the bottom of your library or the Beast dies. That clock turns a graveyard into a resource you ration rather than fill, an unusual inversion in an era whose flashback and madness cards wanted the yard stocked. The second ability inverts the card's whole posture. Discarding a card and paying two green lets the Beast connect as though unblocked, so all six points of its damage land regardless of how many bodies are thrown in front of it. A wall built to defend becomes a finisher, and the discard cost feeds straight back into the upkeep problem: the cards you pitch to swing are the same fuel you need to keep it alive. The result is a puzzle box about graveyard arithmetic, where attacking, surviving, and discarding all draw from one shrinking pool. It is a fragile, demanding engine wearing the frame of a brick wall, and that contradiction is the most interesting thing about it.