Orochi Eggwatcher // Shidako, Broodmistress

Ten creatures is a steep number to reach when your engine builds them one token at a time, and that arithmetic is the whole design. The front side is a slow factory: tap, pay, get a 1/1 Snake, repeat, and eventually (if nothing has died and you've had other help along the way) the board crosses the threshold and the watcher flips. The flip side rewards exactly the wide board the front half spent its turns assembling, but it pays out by spending it: each pump sacrifices a creature to throw a +3/+3 into a block or a race. Many turns of hoarding bodies under one mode, then a conversion of that hoard into a sacrifice engine under the other. The Snakes you made are simultaneously the count that triggers the flip and the fuel the flipped side eats. That self-cannibalizing loop is the heart of the design: a token-maker that becomes a token-spender, with the transformation gated behind the very board it built. The reward is real (instant-speed combat math from a sacrifice outlet you grow into) but the path there is genuinely punishing, since any creature you lose along the way pushes the ten-creature flip further out of reach. It is a patience card in the most literal sense, the kind of build-up-then-cash-out flip that this early era of two-faced Snake Shamans kept experimenting with.