Ichor Slick

Removal spells live or die on whether they have a target when you draw them, and this one answers the dead-card problem by building two exits into a single slot. The base mode is a clean -3/-3 shrink, enough to clear most early bodies and trade up into fatter ones. When the board is empty and there is nothing to kill, cycling lets the card leave for a fresh draw rather than rot in hand. The wrinkle is that those two paths point in opposite directions and the same act of discarding can resolve either one. Madness is not a third discard outlet but a payoff: discard this to any outlet (including its own cycling, or any other rummage or loot effect) and the discard exiles it instead, with a trigger that lets you cast it for on the spot. That madness cost is a premium over the printed , not a discount, and the trade you are paying for is timing: the madness cast fires off the discard trigger, so a graveyard deck can throw the kill spell down at instant speed during an opponent's combat, ambushing an attacker or answering a pump after blocks. The deferred decision is the whole design. Cycling wants you to abandon the removal when it is dead; madness wants you to weaponize the discard itself, paying extra mana for the speed and the deck-thinning that come with it.