Inquisitive Puppet

A blocker that refuses to stay a blocker. The 0/2 body walls early aggression, the scry smooths the draw, and then, when the wall has outlived its usefulness, the Puppet converts itself into a body that can actually attack: exile it, get back a 1/1 white Human that keeps chipping in. The design trick is the exile clause. Because exiling the creature is the activation cost, the Puppet cannot be fed to a sacrifice outlet for its token; it leaves the battlefield on its own terms, on its own timing. And that timing is unrestricted, so the toggle works at instant speed. You can hold up the wall through the attack step, then flip it into a fresh Human at end of turn once you know the block is no longer needed. That instant-speed window is what elevates it above the usual one-drop artifact creature: not a body you commit and forget but a two-stage object whose value shifts as the game state moves. The conversion costs no mana, only the wall itself, keeping the whole thing lean enough to run as flexible utility rather than filler. Cheap artifacts that leave behind a token at the end of their life sit at the crossroads of aristocrats, artifact-count decks, and Human tribal, and this one asks for none of those to justify its slot: a defender now, an attacker later, exactly when you decide the math has flipped.