Masticore

The colorless answer to a question every deck used to ask: how do you get a recurring threat that also clears the board, without paying a color tax? The price is the upkeep clause, and it is a brutal one. Each turn this stays alive, it eats a card from your hand, which means the body only earns its keep when you are flooding or churning through more resources than you can spend. The two activated abilities point in opposite directions: one turns the card into a slow, repeatable pinger that grinds down small creatures over multiple turns; the other makes it nearly impossible to kill with damage, since regeneration shrugs off most burn and combat. Together they describe a control finisher that survives the board state it creates, paid for in cards rather than mana. The discard tax is what keeps the rate honest, and it is the reason the card found its home in artifact-heavy control shells where graveyard fuel and card advantage were already part of the plan. The lineage matters too: this was an early template for self-discarding beaters, the idea that a top-tier body could be balanced by a steady drain on your hand rather than a steep mana cost. The friction is the whole point; pay it, and you get a recurring threat that answers and ends the game at once.