Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger

A pain-redirection engine whose scope swings on the day-night cycle. On the front face, Ill-Tempered Loner cares only about damage dealt to itself: take a hit, and it hands that much right back to any target, a defensive posture that punishes anyone who points removal or a blocker its way. Flip to Howlpack Avenger and the trigger's aperture widens: now any damage dealt to any permanent you control comes back out the barrel. That single-word change (from "this creature" to "a permanent you control") turns a threat you must play around into a board-wide deterrent, where every ping, every combat exchange, every damage-based sweeper becomes ammunition. The redirection is the point, and the werewolf transform is the ideal delivery system for it: daybound and nightbound give you a reflector that upgrades itself into a punishment cannon precisely when your opponent hesitates to cast spells. The repeatable pump plays a subtler role than it looks: it does not scale the reflected damage (that total keys off damage dealt, not power), so its job is to make the creature a bigger clock and a better attacker or blocker, coaxing the exact combat damage that then rebounds off the reflection trigger. Werewolf design usually rewards patience with raw stats; this one rewards it by changing what the card threatens, so the transform is not just bigger numbers but a genuine expansion of the punishment radius.