Gutwrencher Oni

A 5/4 trampler for five sat a notch above the era's fair beater, and the upkeep clause exists to claw that surplus back unless you pay rent in a particular currency: an Ogre on the battlefield. This is creature-type-as-cost, an early experiment in welding a body's rate to a board state rather than to mana, life, or a sacrifice. The asymmetry is deliberate and lopsided. Field the Ogre half and the demon's surcharge vanishes; jam it as a generic curve-topper and it quietly empties your hand every turn until you have nothing left to throw away. That refusal to function as a clean standalone beater is the proposition the card makes: it is a payoff that only pays the player who committed to a tribe, and a slow leak for the one who did not. The Spirit on the type line is pure flavor; the relevant subtype is the one the card itself lacks, since this Demon Spirit does not satisfy its own Ogre condition and so can never spare you the discard on its own. Read straight, it is honest black aggression: trample to push damage through chumps, raw size to trade up, and a built-in tax pointing the other way. Strip the tribal scaffolding and you are left holding a five-drop that taxes your hand for the privilege of swinging, which is precisely the deal the design wants you to walk away from.