Hythonia the Cruel

A one-sided wrath stapled to a creature, with the gorgon's own myth doing the design work. Most black sweepers hedge with a downside or a narrow filter; this one simply exempts Gorgons, and since Hythonia is the only Gorgon on most boards she plays in, the asymmetry resolves in her favor by default. The cost is steep and deliberate: six mana to land the body, then another eight to flip her monstrous and trigger the sweep. That fourteen-mana commitment across two turns is the price that keeps a Plague Wind on a stick from being oppressive, demanding you survive long enough to want the reset in the first place. The monstrosity activation carries no timing restriction, so the sweep can be held back and triggered at instant speed, turning her into an ambush that wipes the board mid-combat or on an opponent's turn. Deathtouch covers the gap between casting her and going monstrous, letting a 4/6 trade up against anything that attacks into her in the meantime. What lingers is the flavor execution: a gorgon whose petrifying gaze is mechanized as a delayed, irreversible wrath that leaves her standing alone over a field of stone, the +1/+1 counters making her literally larger as the board empties. The mechanic and the myth point the same direction, which is rarer than it sounds in creatures built around a single big payoff.