Messenger Jays

Most council's dilemma cards spread the spoils across the table; this one folds the entire vote into a single body. The feather/quill choice is a self-tuning trade between size and card flow, and because dilemma grants the effect of every vote independently, there is no majority to swing: each feather vote is a counter, each quill vote a card, and they stack alongside one another rather than competing. The wrinkle that keeps quill honest is the discard rider. Every quill vote is looting, not pure card advantage, so opponents who pile on quill aren't simply handing you gas; they force you to churn through your library while padding nothing useful into hand. That asymmetry is the design hook. A table can read the board and steer the Bird toward whichever axis hurts the controller least, but it can never zero out the controller's own pick: voting first guarantees at least one trigger of the effect you want. What results is a creature whose statline on resolution is genuinely unknown until the votes land, multiplayer political theater compressed into a five-mana flyer. The evasion matters more than the rate suggests, since a feather-heavy result piles counters onto a body the ground can't block, turning a vote into a clock. It rewards reading the room rather than building around it, which is exactly the axis this whole mechanic was built to explore.