Mirri the Cursed
When the timeline fractured, Weatherlight's loyal white Cat warrior came back wrong. Same name, same 3/2 body, same first strike, but the keyword math has been reorganized into something black and predatory: flying and haste turned a tidy defensive blocker into an evasive aggressor, and the counter clause turned loyalty into hunger. She grows only by drawing blood from creatures, never players, which gives her a perverse appetite for fights she could simply fly over: every blocker she connects with leaves her bigger, and first strike means she usually lands that damage before anything lands its own. The result is a snowballing attacker who survives the combat she instigates and gets larger for the trouble.
What makes the design worth study is the color translation. The original was a clean white legend whose first strike read as discipline and protection; this Vampire Cat keeps the silhouette and rebuilds the temperament, recasting devotion as bloodlust without inventing a new character. She is the same Mirri seen through a darker lens, the keywords rearranged so that growth, evasion, and speed all pull toward aggression rather than defense. As a portrait of alternate-timeline corruption, the corruption is legible in the rules text itself: not a new creature wearing a familiar name, but a familiar creature wearing a counter that rewards her for the violence the original never sought.
