Living Conundrum
A card that flips your own mill clock into a wincon. The default body is a 2/5 hexproof wall, defensive and slow, a creature that survives combat rather than ends it. The transformation clause is the whole game plan: empty your library and the wall becomes a 10/10 flier with vigilance that opponents can't target, a clock that swings and blocks in the same turn. The design tension is deliberate. Milling yourself to zero is normally a countdown to decking out, but this creature offers an escape hatch and a payoff in one shell: the middle line skips the fatal draw, so the same self-mill that would kill you instead arms the finisher. Hexproof means the flip is durable against spot removal once you commit, forcing opponents onto sweepers or blockers rather than a clean one-for-one answer. The awkwardness is baked in: getting a library to zero without losing to your own draw step is a real deckbuilding cost, and until you clear the last card the body is doing nothing but stalling. It rewards a build committed to self-mill as a resource rather than an accident, and it punishes anyone who plays it as a fair blue midrange creature.
