Scalpelexis

A library-eater that scales with the opponent's redundancy rather than raw card count. Connecting in combat exiles the top four cards, and any time two or more of those share a name, the process repeats, peeling deeper in escalating chunks. Crucially, those cards leave the game entirely rather than landing in the graveyard, which means there is no flashback to enable, no recursion to feed, no delve fuel to bank: the cards are simply gone. That clause turns a modest four-card bite into a probabilistic chain against any deck running copies of the same card, which inverts the usual logic of consistency. The more focused and repetitive a list is, the faster it folds; the very deckbuilding discipline that makes a strategy reliable is what feeds the loop. The 1/5 flying frame is built for one purpose: low power that will never win a race, high toughness that survives return blows, evasion that keeps the trigger landing turn after turn. It is a defensive shell wrapped around a slow exile clock, and the clock only counts when it connects. Against a singleton-heavy build the chain rarely fires and the card grinds; against a tightly tuned list packed with four-ofs and basic lands, one unblocked swing can hollow out a third of the deck in a single combat step. That variance is the entire design conceit: a threat whose ceiling is set not by its own stats but by how repetitive its target happens to be.