Thoughtcutter Agent

Most hand disruption is one-shot: a discard spell sees the hand once, takes a card, and is spent. This Rogue instead converts disruption into a repeatable engine, peeling the opponent's hand open every turn while bleeding a life at a time. Notice what it never does: it takes nothing. Revealing the hand is intelligence, not deprivation, so the payoff sits entirely with the player who can act on what they learn (sequencing removal around a held trick, timing a counterspell, holding back when the dangerous answer is still live). The body explains the rest of the math: a 1/1 dies to almost anything, and the tap-plus-activation rhythm means an opponent with a clear board can simply ignore the slow drip of life loss while you sink mana into looking. What you are paying for is the asymmetry of perfect information against an opponent who has none, which makes this a control deck's tool rather than a tempo creature: only a deck that already plans to win late has the mana to spare on repeated peeks and the reactive spells to make the knowledge pay. The artifact type rides on top of a blue-black creature rather than replacing its colors; the card is still firmly locked to decks that can produce both, and its appeal is narrow by design, an information engine for the kind of deck patient enough to need one.