Kitsune Diviner

A one-mana answer built for exactly one war: the Spirit-versus-everyone-else conflict that defined its block. The whole design is asymmetric by intent. It cannot kill anything, cannot trade, cannot even attack productively from a 0/1 frame; it exists only to tap a Spirit, and only Spirits. That word "Spirit" in the targeting line is the entire card. Across from the right deck, it is a recurring tax on tempo, taking one attacker or blocker out of the combat math each turn cycle and asking nothing in return. Note the precise limit, though: tapping is the activation cost, so the diviner serves one Spirit per turn before it is tapped out itself. It does not freeze a board; it picks off the single most threatening Spirit and waits for next turn. The 0/1 body is a feature of that loop. A creature this fragile would die to any real exchange, but this one never enters one; it taps to function and survives as a lever rather than a combatant. This is the rare design that only makes sense when a format hands one creature type enough density to deserve a dedicated counter. Hand it a board with no Spirits and it is a blank: a 0/1 with no target and nothing to do. It lives and dies by how many Spirits sit across the table, which is precisely the kind of hard-narrow hate that early tribal-war design was willing to print.