Nimana Skitter-Sneak

The eight-cards-in-graveyard clause is the interesting part: not your graveyard, but an opponent's. That flips the usual self-mill or delve accounting on its head. Most graveyard-count payoffs ask you to fill your own bin, which puts the condition under your control. Here the threshold lives across the table, so the body only swells to a 4/4 with menace once the game state has done the filling for you: opponents cracking fetches, cycling, looting, or just trading creatures into your removal over a long grind. That makes it a beater whose upside scales with the length and shape of the game rather than with your own deckbuilding levers, an unusual dependency for a black creature. As a plain 3/4 for four it blocks well and applies modest pressure early; the static bonus is a late-game rider that keeps the body relevant once boards have gone wide and graveyards have grown fat. The menace, not the extra power, is the real payoff: a hard-to-block 4/4 is the kind of clock that closes out attrition mirrors where both sides have run their libraries thin. It is a role-player built for the back half of grindy games, priced honestly and asking nothing of you except patience while the opponent stocks the graveyard on your behalf.