Jaded Analyst

The design conceit here is a defender that pays off card-flow rather than blocking. A 3/2 body with defender is a solid wall by rate, but the whole point is to stop being one: hitting your second draw in a turn peels the defender clause off and hands the creature vigilance, so it can swing and still guard the fort next turn. That second-draw trigger is the pivot. It rewards a shell built to draw beyond the natural first card each turn (cheap cantrips, extra-draw enablers, investigate and clue-cracking effects that top off the hand), and it turns each of those into a small combat unlock rather than pure card advantage. What makes the timing interesting is that the switch lasts only until end of turn: the analyst reverts to defender on cleanup, so it is an attacker on turns you engineer the draw and a wall on turns you do not. That gives it a rhythm most beaters lack, alternating between offense and defense based on how you sequence your draws rather than on the board state. It is a build-around by nature: unremarkable if you draw a single card a turn, quietly aggressive the moment your deck is tuned to draw more.