Bloody Betrayal

Threaten effects have always paid for themselves in a single swing: borrow a creature, attack with it, hand it back tapped. The price of admission was the tempo spent on a one-turn rental, and when the board offered nothing worth stealing the card was dead in hand. This one still demands a legal target (no creature to steal, no spell to cast, and a target removed in response makes it fizzle), but it changes what the rental leaves behind. The Blood token that lands alongside the borrow-and-haste package is the design lever, and it points the effect squarely at sacrifice decks. Steal a creature, swing, and feed it to an outlet before end of turn: the temporary loan becomes permanent removal, and you have banked a Blood token to fuel the discard-and-draw economy those decks run on. The token also softens the classic Threaten disappointment: even a low-value steal (a mana dork, a chump you just want to swing once) still leaves a filtering artifact for later. That second resource is what moves the card off the pure-tempo axis its predecessors lived on and onto a value axis: the sorcery converts board presence into a card-selection engine rather than expiring the moment the borrowed creature goes home. The rate is honest rather than pushed, but the Blood is the residue that a long line of steal-and-swing sorceries never left you once the loan came due.