Sage of Ancient Lore // Werewolf of Ancient Hunger
Most werewolves flip on a held breath: a single quiet turn nightsides the pack, a flurry of spells flips it back. This one keeps that rhythm intact (zero spells last turn sends it to night, two spells from anyone snaps it back to day) but bolts a card-advantage engine onto a transform body, which is the genuinely odd part. The human face is a moving target whose body equals the cards in your own hand, and its enters trigger pads that hand by one before anyone gets a swing in. Once it flips, the size dial jumps to the whole table: power and toughness equal to every card in every hand, now carrying vigilance and trample so the bloated body attacks without dropping its guard. The night side's flip-back condition is where the design bites. Two spells in a turn returns it to its human form, and those two spells will usually be an opponent's interaction aimed at the threat itself, but emptying a hand to cast them shrinks the creature they are trying to kill, since the night side feeds on the cards still sitting in everyone's grip. Hold up and it swings huge; spend down to answer it and it gets smaller as it reverts. It taxes both halves of the day-night cycle, sizing itself to the table's collective resources rather than to the board.


