Phyrexian Slayer

Color hate worn on the sleeve, pointed squarely at white. This flyer dares a white creature to block it and then kills whatever does, no regeneration allowed, which turns the most ordinary combat decision into a losing trade for one specific opponent. The design is almost punitive in how narrow it is. Against a white deck it functions like a recurring threat the air defense can never answer cleanly: the trigger destroys the blocker before combat damage is dealt, so the white player loses a creature and the block stops only the two damage it was always going to stop, paying a body to do it. The block still works; it just costs far more than a block should. Against any other color it is a plain 2/2 flyer for four mana, a body too small to earn a slot in most decks. That gap between contexts is what these early mono-colored hosers were for, tucked among the gold cards of a multicolor-obsessed era: they reward you for knowing what you are about to face and punish you for guessing wrong. It is a snapshot of a moment when Wizards leaned hard into asymmetric color tension as a sideboard reward, before that role mostly migrated to dedicated enchantments and pump effects that did the same job with less collateral wired into the creature itself.