Witness of the Ages

The math runs against this Golem from both directions. Hard-cast it for six and you get a 4/4 that does nothing beyond its stats: no combat text, no reveal trigger, just a plain body with no ability but morph. Cast it as a face-down 2/2 and you still owe five to flip, which comes to eight mana across two turns to reach that same 4/4, and the reward for spending it is that a 2/2 becomes a 4/4 and gains an artifact type line. That inversion is the whole story: the flip cost sits above the face-down cast cost, where the more aggressive morphs of the era were priced to be flipped, not stranded. What the design sells instead is the bluff, the generic threat every unrevealed morph projects. The hidden permanent is a nameless 2/2 with no subtypes and no artifact type, so an opponent staring at it has no way to price the answer; it could be a combat blowout or, in this case, nothing much. Colorless casting is the one thing it never surrenders, letting the body slot into any shell and arrive as an artifact when the mana finally shows up. As a payoff it does not pay off, and the face-down mode reads as camouflage rather than a plan you want to execute. This is a filler morph whose entire pitch is the ambiguity of the hidden card.