Bellowing Mauler
A recurring group toll that runs on a lever players actually hate to pull. The end-step trigger poses the same question every turn: bleed four life, or feed a nontoken creature to the sacrifice clause. The nontoken restriction is what sharpens it: token strategies, the usual answer to symmetric sacrifice effects, cannot chump the tax away, so a go-wide board of Zombies or Saprolings is worthless as fuel and the life loss lands unmitigated. It taxes the pod symmetrically on paper, but the deck built to abuse it is asymmetrical in practice. Pair it with a payoff that turns your own forced sacrifices into value, an aristocrat engine that wants creatures dying anyway, and the trigger stops being a shared burden and becomes an enabler you get paid to trigger. The 4/6 body is the design discipline that keeps the card fair: five mana buys a wall that blocks well and clocks slowly, not a threat that closes on its own, so the card asks you to build around the drain rather than ride it. It sits in the lineage of symmetric attrition pieces that punish the whole table (the Smokestack school of resource-denial), narrowed here to bodies and pointed specifically at creature-heavy fields that lack a steady stream of expendable nontoken chaff.
