Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming

A Saga that reads its own three chapters in order, then pays the whole thing out as a body: no branch, no choice about which half you get, only patience while the front does its work. The chapters land in a deliberate sequence. First a symmetrical sweep that clears anything cheap (tokens, mana dorks, one-drops), then graveyard exile, and only then the transform. The ordering is the point: the graveyard hate arrives after the sweep, so much of what dies in chapter one is cleared out before it can come back and matter. The back half is where the design reaches. Rather than asking the pilot to do combat math, the creature keeps its own, growing with a +1/+1 counter every time it deals damage at all (to blockers, to a player, or through a fight spell, not just when it lands a hit on someone), and it carries a damage-tracking clause that converts ten damage to a single player into a hard loss. That reframes the finisher: not a life-total race but a single-turn accounting problem, where evasion, double strike, or one large swing can cross the ten-damage line in a single hit instead of two. The through-line across both faces is delayed gratification. You commit three mana up front for board control and graveyard denial, absorb the tempo cost of a Saga that has to complete its cycle, and receive a self-sustaining threat that closes on a bespoke win condition. The transform is the hinge between a reset and a kill, but it only swings one way, and always in that order.