Town Gossipmonger // Incited Rabble

The transform cost is the whole design conceit, and it works backward from the usual flip math. Most double-faced cards reward you for advancing the game state; this one charges two creatures up front and only pays off if you have bodies to spare and the aggression to cash them in. The activation taps the Gossipmonger itself and a second creature you control, so the flip surrenders one attacker's readiness while spending the tap of another. That is a real tempo tax on a board that wants to be swinging, not a cost you can shrug off with tokens. The front is a 1/1 whose only line of text is that transform ability; its job is to fund its own flip and then ride along once the thing it became starts attacking. The back, Incited Rabble, is the payoff: a one-drop that must attack each combat and turns leftover mana into damage through a repeatable +1/+0 pump. That mana sink is where a stalled turn goes: when your hand is empty and you have floating mana, the Rabble keeps scaling instead of standing still. Plenty of cheap creatures change roles by consuming an asset you already control, but the doubled tap makes this one stingier than most. The question isn't just whether your tempo is worth more now or later; it's whether you can spare two creatures' worth of readiness to find out.