Silent Specter

The hand-attack lineage scaled up. Where Hypnotic Specter strips a single random card off a three-mana 2/1 flier, this trades up to a 4/4 evasive body and demands a deliberate two-card discard on connection, a clock that survives more of the board and clears more of an opponent's answers one combat step at a time. The real wrinkle is the morph cost, which is doing more than disguising power. Cast for , it attacks as a plain 2/2 with no trigger attached, and the flip () can happen at any time, including during the combat it is already in: turn it face up before the combat damage step and an unblocked attacker becomes a 4/4 that deals four and fires the discard immediately, in that same swing. That collapses the opponent's read into a guess. Block the small attacker and it might flip to a flier that survives the trade; let it through and it might flip into a four-damage hit that empties two cards from hand. The body and trigger were tuned around an era when the Specter template carried black's disruption package, and the design choice here is to make evasion plus discard a multi-turn grind rather than a single blowout: it wants to connect again and again, emptying a hand to nothing rather than spiking once. Slower than the discard-and-burn engines that came later, but more total when it lands.