Kruphix, God of Horizons
Two of the God's clauses do almost nothing on their own, and that quiet redundancy is the design point. No maximum hand size matters only if you are drawing past seven; unspent mana becoming colorless matters only if you are floating large quantities and crossing turn boundaries. Apart, they are minor. Together they describe patience as a resource: hold cards indefinitely, pour surplus mana into a colorless pool at end of turn, then unload everything when the payoff finally arrives. The Simic color pair was built around exactly this kind of banked-value plan, and this God is the closest that philosophy ever came to a single rules object. The devotion clause gating the 4/7 body does the usual work for these designs, keeping an indestructible blocker off the table until you have committed enough green and blue pips to earn it, but the body is almost incidental to the appeal. What people build around is the mana clause: in a format with rituals, doublers, and untap effects, a turn that would normally waste its surplus instead carries it forward, and the no-maximum-hand-size clause makes sure you never have to discard the payoff while you wait. The result is a permanent that punishes nothing and enables hoarding, a card whose ceiling is set entirely by what you do with a reserve that no longer expires.
