Altac Bloodseeker

The trigger is the whole pitch: it pays you for your opponent's creatures dying, not your own. That inverts the usual aristocrats logic, where the controller feeds a sacrifice engine and collects death triggers off their own board. This Berserker wants the other side to lose creatures, which makes it a removal-and-combat payoff rather than a sacrifice payoff. The timing is where the design gets specific: a kill spell resolved before combat leaves a 4/1 with first strike and haste ready to attack, but a creature that dies from a combat trade dies after damage, so the buff arrives once combat is already over. The payoff wants the death to happen at instant speed and on your terms, ideally in your first main phase or in response to a block, not as the byproduct of the swing itself. First strike does quiet heavy lifting alongside the +2/+0, letting the buffed body win exchanges against creatures that would otherwise trade up, while haste covers the case where the enemy creature dies the same turn this one enters. The catch is fragility: a 2/1 base is a single burn spell away from dying, and the whole package only assembles when a kill lands. As a design it is a tidy little engine for an aggressive red deck that runs cheap removal and wants its threats to convert each kill into tempo, a payoff that rewards initiative rather than the slow value grind most death-trigger creatures chase.