Invasion of Ergamon // Truga Cliffcharger

Every battle in the cycle asks the same question: is defeating your own siege worth the effort, or is the front-face payoff already enough? This one answers it twice, and both halves smooth over the deck rather than closing out a game. The front produces a Treasure on entry and offers a rummage, so even if you never crack the battle you have fixed your mana and dug a card deep. Flip it (by attacking down its defense) and Truga Cliffcharger arrives as a trampling body that pays for a second rummage with a tutor: not for anything, but for a land or another battle, which keeps the same engine running and threads the deck toward the next siege. That narrow tutor target is the tell. This is a card built to grease a battle-matters shell, converting a cheap early play into fixing, filtering, and a follow-up threat that fetches its own successor. The design leans into the two-for-one structure the mechanic is built around: a low front-side cost that never feels wasted, and a back half that rewards the tempo you spent breaking the siege. Nothing here swings a board on its own. What it does is make sure the hand keeps flowing and the next battle is always in reach, which is exactly the connective tissue a battle-centric strategy needs to hold together across a long game.