Shrill Howler // Howling Chorus
A 3/1 that swings for its full weight but dies to any nick, this is a glass cannon keyed to power rather than blocker count: creatures weaker than it simply cannot stand in its way. That power-comparison wording is the connective tissue between both faces, scaling the evasion as the board grows around it. The flip cost is where the design gets interesting. This is a werewolf that transforms on demand by paying mana rather than waiting on the day-and-night spell-counting triggers most of the tribe runs on, which untethers it from that clock entirely; you flip when you can afford to, not when the table cooperates. What the mana buys is the same evasion plus a token engine: every connection mints a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror, turning a single fragile attacker into a widening threat one combat step at a time. The transform is one-directional in practice, since nothing on either face flips it back, so the steep activation reads as a one-time upgrade rather than a recurring toggle. It belongs to the line of attackers that earn their keep by snowballing combat damage rather than raw stats: the front gets in, the back compounds, and the real work happens on the second hit and every hit after.



