Bartered Cow

Most creatures give you nothing for pitching them; this one turns every route out of your hand into value. The body is a plain 3/3, but the whole reason it exists is the pair of triggers that fire in opposite directions: die on the battlefield and you get a Food, discard it from your grip and you get a Food anyway. That symmetry is the design point. It means the card is never truly dead, whether it is rotting in hand during a flood or trading in combat, and it lets a Food-matters deck treat a slot that would otherwise be a liability as a guaranteed piece of the artifact-token engine. The Ox is the delivery vehicle, not the payoff: sacrifice fodder, discard fuel, and a body that happens to block, all wrapped so that the worst outcome (drawing a mediocre four-drop with nothing to do) still advances your Food count. It reads as a common-rarity glue card, and it is, but the discard clause is the tell of a design built around fairy-tale confections: a creature meant to behave like an ingredient rather than a threat, something you spend rather than commit.