Ravenous Giant

A 5/5 for four with a self-inflicted wound was old news even when this arrived: the lineage runs back through the aggressive-creature-with-a-drawback template that priced above-curve bodies against a recurring cost. What this one asks for is time. The upkeep ping is not front-loaded like a Phyrexian mana payment or a one-shot pay-on-cast; it compounds. Every turn the Giant sits on the board, you pay another life, so the card is rated for decks that expect to win before the arithmetic turns hostile. Hold it too long against a stalled board and the drawback stops being a rounding error and starts being a clock pointed the wrong way. That framing is the whole design: the raw rate (a beefy body well ahead of its mana value) is only free if you are the beatdown, and the ping quietly punishes anyone who treats it as a durable midrange threat. It is a callback rather than an innovation, a deliberately plain throwback to an era when red got its size cheap and paid in a slow leak, built for a game plan that intends to close before the leak matters. A 5/5 that taxes its own controller is a race card, not a value card, and the design is honest about which side of that line it stands on.