Lord of the Nazgûl

The design puzzle here is how to turn a spellslinger deck into a Wraith horde without asking the deck to also play creatures, and the answer is to make instants and sorceries the creature engine themselves. Every counterspell, every cantrip, every removal spell you were already casting drops a 3/3 menace body onto the board, so the two halves of the deck (spells and bodies) stop competing for slots and start feeding each other. The nine-Wraith threshold is where the design tips over: once the token count crosses that line, the whole board becomes a wall of 9/9s with evasion until end of turn, which recontextualizes a swarm of small menace creatures as a lethal alpha strike waiting on a single cheap spell. The protection-from-Ring-bearers clause is narrower flavor plumbing than a strategic pillar, gating a specific interaction rather than reshaping how the deck attacks. The tension that makes the whole thing tick is that the token count is sticky while the pump is not: bodies accumulate permanently across turns, then one instant converts stored board width into a decisive swing. That split, between the slow permanent buildup and the burst that cashes it in, is the strategic axis this card is built around, and the deck that succeeds treats its spell count as a resource being banked rather than spent.