Skulking Killer

The removal clause here is fenced behind a condition most decks will spend the whole game trying not to meet: the -2/-2 only fires when your opponent has been reduced to a single creature. That makes it a mopping-up tool rather than an answer, useful once a board has already been stripped rather than when it needs stripping. Wizards has printed conditional removal on creature bodies before, usually keyed to something a controlling player can arrange (an artifact, a graveyard, a life total), but the "no other creatures" gate is unusual in that it rewards you for winning the attrition fight first, then cashes the trigger as a coup de grace. The body pulls the other direction: a 4/2 is aggressive statlines, meant to trade up and pressure rather than sit back, which puts the card in tension with a removal effect that wants the opponent already emptied out. The design reads as a common-slot combat card that carries a small conditional upside, with the -2/-2 sized to fell most early creatures the moment the opponent runs out of blockers. It is a card built for the point in a game where you are ahead and want to stay there, not the point where you are trying to claw back.