Agent Venom

Flash on an aristocrats payoff is the wrinkle that makes this more than another death-trigger card-draw engine. Most cards that read "whenever a creature you control dies, draw" are sorcery-speed liabilities: you commit them to the board a turn early and telegraph the plan. This one waits in hand until the combat step or the moment before a board wipe resolves, dropping in at instant speed to catch the deaths that were going to happen anyway. The nontoken clause is the restriction that keeps the draw honest: token-swarm decks that could otherwise convert a Grave Pact into a fistful of cards get nothing, so the engine rewards a deck built on individually meaningful bodies rather than chaff. Menace pushes the 2/3 through as a clock once the value has been banked, which matters because the drain-yourself cost means you cannot sit behind it forever. The card belongs to a long line of black card-advantage engines that charge life for cards, going back to the earliest days of the color's identity, and it prices the draw at exactly one life per creature: cheap enough to run out, steep enough that a wrath into an empty hand can turn the trigger against you. The design lives in that self-inflicted tension, an engine that flashes in to profit from your own losses and quietly bleeds you while it does it.