Talonrend

Five toughness in the air, zero power on the ground, and a single hybrid pip that converts one stat into the other: this is a card that attacks by spending itself. The activation buys a point of power for a point of toughness until cleanup, and that arithmetic is the entire proposition. Leave it untapped and the 0/5 flier is a roadblock that holds the skies without ever threatening to end a game; start pumping and it becomes a clock, but every swing toward lethal walks the body one step closer to the graveyard, since the toughness it sacrifices is gone for the turn while the power it gains evaporates at cleanup. The casting cost anchors it in blue: means it never lives in red on its own. The hybrid pip is not an offer for a second color to cast it; it is a flexibility valve on the activation, letting either blue or red mana fuel the conversion once the wall is already deployed. That makes this a blue defensive piece a red splash can repurpose into reach, not a creature two enemy colors jointly own. The self-cannibalizing toughness is the genuinely clever part: a body engineered to be fed slowly into the attack, more rewarding to dissect as a design exercise than to actually pilot.