Zulaport Duelist

The tension here is that the mill lands on the wrong player. A defensive combat trick that shrinks an attacker by two power, priced at a single mana and cast at instant speed, has to pay for itself somehow, and the payment is that the affected creature's controller mills two cards, not you. Most of the time that clause is a rounding error: you flash this in to eat a two-power attacker or to survive a swing, and the two cards the opponent loses off the top are noise. But the design keeps a door open. Aim the debuff at a creature you already control and the mill becomes self-mill on your terms, converting a tempo body into a graveyard enabler that also leaves a flash blocker on the board. The -2/-0 only touches power, never toughness, so this is built to blunt aggression and race the beatdown clock rather than to trade in a real fight; a creature it hits still blocks at full toughness and dies to nothing on its own. That split personality (defensive interaction for the tempo player, incidental fuel for the deck that wants a full graveyard) is what justifies stapling flash to a one-drop whose enters trigger reads both ways. It asks which player you want to mill before it asks anything else.