Predator, Flagship

Greven il-Vec's flagship out of Rath, rendered as a self-contained removal engine, and the design conceit is the loop it builds with itself: the first ability grants flying, the second destroys a flier. Pay two mana to hand an enemy creature wings, then five and a tap to shoot it down. That gun-and-trap structure is unusual; most colorless removal of its era either taxed you up front or restricted what it could hit, while this one converts any creature into a legal target through its own granted keyword. The cost is steep and the destroy ability requires a tap, so it fires only once per turn cycle, which is the friction that keeps a repeatable kill effect honest: you commit seven total mana and a tap to remove a single creature, and granting the flying first telegraphs the kill to anyone holding instant-speed protection. The first ability also reads two ways, since handing out flying is an offensive enabler as much as a setup for the activated removal, letting it push a ground attacker over a stalled board when the trap is not the priority. As one of the named artifacts of the Weatherlight Saga, it stands as the antagonist vessel's hardware: a colorless answer any deck can run regardless of color identity, asking only for a heavy mana investment in return.