Quakefoot Cyclops

The pitch here is that a can't-block effect deserves to survive the trip to the graveyard. Cast for full price, the 4/4 body enters and pins up to two blockers in place, the kind of alpha-strike enabler that converts a clogged board into lethal in one attack step. That is the finisher end of the design, and it earns the five-mana rate by threatening to end the game the turn it lands. The subtler work happens on the cycling side. Most cyclers offer nothing but the card underneath: pitch it to smooth a draw and move on. This one carries a triggered ability that fires when you cycle it, stripping a blocker off one creature on the way out. So the card you discard early to hit a land drop still leaves a Falter-style mark on the battlefield, and the "dead" draw becomes a trick that replaces itself. That resolves the aggro deck's oldest tension, the mismatch between drawing lands when you want gas and gas when you want reach, by refusing to be a wasted card in either direction. Early, it is the cheap variance hedge you cash in for a card while nudging one attacker through; late, it is the body you hard-cast to clear the way for a swing that closes the game. Two roles pointed at the same goal, priced so neither one is ever the wrong draw.