Riptide Pilferer

Repeatable hand attack has always been black's department, the province of Hypnotic Specter and its kin: a flying or evasive body that punishes every unblocked swing by stripping a card. Handing that effect to blue, on a creature meant to attack rather than counter, is the experiment running here. The 1/1 frame is what blue pays for the privilege, and morph is what makes that frame work. Deployed face down as an anonymous 2/2, the card hides which threat the opponent is staring at; what makes the discard land is timing, because the trigger only fires once the creature is face up when combat damage connects. The line that wins is mechanical: leave the unknown 2/2 in front of an opponent who declines to block, flip it during declare blockers, and let the revealed 1/1 slip through unobstructed to take a card. Reveal it earlier and any chump stops it, so the bluff carries more weight than the stats ever could. The effect is small and the body smaller, but the slot it occupies is one blue almost never holds: a proactive, recurring resource-denial clock instead of a reactive answer held up on the stack. That absence in blue's toolkit, more than the rate, explains why the card exists at all.