What's that one inspirational post about how there used to be nothing that could break down trees until suddenly some bacteria figured it out. Better to go out swinging, its the same premise as a saw trap.

Strife specibus is hard, I'm just not a very fighty person, but I would bite someone so Teethkind? Honestly once I was in SBURB i'd run as fast as I could to get some magic abilities or some such nonsense. Offset the actual physical fighting aspect. Or mix is with my sylladex idea, make it cardkind

For sylladex the question is go for something funny or something actually usable. I think i'd choose something based around magic the gathering commander decks. So you pick up an item and it gets shuffled into your deck, and you can have a hand of seven items at a time, but to get a new item in hand you have to either wait a set amount of time or get an item that makes you draw more cards. Then make the upside something about how you could store spells as well as items.