Ability
Desertion. If you win the combat, the opponent must give you 1 card from their hand (they choose which).
The myth
Spawned in the scorching Libyan sands from the spilled blood of the Gorgon, the basilisk rose as the undisputed sovereign of ancient deserts, crowned by nature itself with a diadem of absolute death. Rearing upright in defiance of all crawling serpents and driving away lesser beasts with a single hiss, its lethal gaze scorched fertile realms into barren wastelands, carving its name into Greco-Roman lore as the ultimate king of venom and primordial ruin.