Howling Banshee
A 3/3 flyer for four is a perfectly fair body, but the enters trigger does not target, does not discriminate, and does not spare its controller: each player loses three. That makes this a Spirit you have to underwrite with the rest of your deck before it earns its keep, the inverse of how black usually prices its life-loss effects, where the drain points the damage at the opponent and leaves you whole. The lineage here is the symmetrical drain creature, a recurring early-era experiment where the cost of the burst was that you ate it too. The card sits comfortably in a shell that is already ahead on the life total or already racing, where shaving three points off each player pushes a clock you were going to win anyway, and it sits badly in a deck that wanted the body and got handed a self-inflicted wound alongside it. The flying matters more than it looks: an evasive beater that also doubles as reach, closing the same three points it cost you to deploy. It is a creature whose value is entirely a function of who is winning the race when it lands, which is an unusual axis to build a midrange flyer around, and the reason it reads as a deliberately conditional card rather than a strictly efficient one.
