MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
A build-around built on the geometry of the attack step, and the two triggers point in opposite directions. On offense, it turns your small creatures into evasive threats: anything with power 2 or less gets skulk when it attacks, which means the wider and lower your board, the harder it is to profitably block. On defense, it taxes the other side of the size scale, punishing every fat attacker that swings your way with a four-point life swing. The result is a card that quietly declares which end of the power curve it wants everyone playing at: your team small and sneaky, theirs large and penalized for it. That symmetry is the design idea worth sitting with. Most go-wide payoffs care only about your own board; this one edits the value of a creature's power number on both sides of the table at once, rewarding a token-and-weenie strategy while making a beatdown deck pay a toll for its own game plan. The 1/3 body is telling: it is built to survive combat and keep enabling the swarm rather than to attack itself. It is not a payoff you build a combo around so much as a governor on how creature combat resolves, most useful when the plan is a low, wide board that chips in a little from every angle and turns the opponent's biggest creatures into a slow bleed.
