Mindwhisker

Most threshold cards ask you to reach the tipping point through the ordinary attrition of a long game and simply hope you cross it before the payoff stops mattering. This one arrives carrying its own shovel. The recurring upkeep surveil is a decision, not a forced mill: keep the card you find to preserve selection, or bin it to inch closer to the count that flips the anthem-in-reverse online. That choice never costs a card in hand or on the board; it trades present card quality for graveyard fuel toward a future effect. The reward is deliberately narrow. Shaving one power without touching toughness blunts an aggressive board's damage output and can strand a rank of one-power attackers behind their own numbers, while doing nothing to slow a single fat threat. That makes this a defensive engine for a patient blue deck that wants to grind a swarm to a standstill, not a beater and not an answer to a haymaker. The body is modest and evasionless, so it leans entirely on that repeating trigger to stay relevant, and the debuff switches on however you reach seven cards in the graveyard, whether through those surveils or the rest of your game. Its identity lives in that upkeep decision: a self-priming attrition piece that funds its own payoff one card at a time, on your terms.