King Macar, the Gold-Cursed

Inspired always keys off the same moment: a creature untaps, usually on your next turn after it attacked, and pays out. What makes this one worth building around is what the payoff actually is. The trigger exiles the targeted creature, which means it sidesteps indestructibility, regeneration, and toughness entirely, and it does so permanently. Black rarely gets clean creature exile without strings; here it comes one tap at a time, taxed by the need to keep a 2/3 alive long enough to be greedy. The friction is structural. On a bare board Macar must attack (or get tapped some other way), survive, and untap before it does anything, which works out to roughly a turn cycle per exile, and a 2/3 invites blockers and removal in the meantime. But the loop compounds: every creature it eats also leaves a Gold token, so the same trigger that clears a blocker banks a mana of any color toward whatever comes next. Pair the untap clause with anything that untaps at will and the once-per-turn pace collapses into repeatable, hard-to-answer removal stapled to ramp. That is the real tension: a removal effect priced as an attack-and-survive ritual, on a body soft enough that the math only pays off if you protect it or accelerate the untaps. Strip the storyline away and Macar is a black creature doing slow, metered, no-questions-asked exile, the kind of effect the color almost never gets without a cost attached.