Vectis Dominator

The Icy Manipulator effect, miniaturized and stapled to a body, with the twist that the lock is never quite a lock. A standalone tapper costs the defending player nothing but the inconvenience; here there is always an out, and it is cheap: two life. That single clause reshapes what the tapper is for. This is not a hard answer to an attacker or blocker so much as a recurring tax, a Pestermite that never leaves and never stops asking the opponent to bleed. Against a control deck the two-life dodge is trivial and the ability does almost nothing; against an aggressive board where life is the resource being raced, the choice becomes real, and forcing a creature to stay tapped or pay can swing a single combat step. The 0/2 frame is deliberate: this is a permission-gate, not a beater, built to sit back and repeat its function turn after turn. Pairing white and black on a repeatable tapper is the design wrinkle, since the life payment reads as a black-style cost grafted onto an otherwise colorless utility effect, letting the card threaten attrition where a pure tapper would only threaten tempo. The whole thing only sharpens when every two life is a real cost; everywhere else it idles politely, tapping nothing the opponent minds losing.