Bone Picker

The whole card lives or dies on a single conditional discount, and that discount is steep enough to invert the cost entirely: pay the full four mana and you have a fragile flyer no one wants; trigger the condition and you have a one-mana 3/2 with flying and deathtouch, a rate so far ahead of the curve it borders on free. The design move is to make the body's quality contingent not on deckbuilding restrictions but on the flow of combat and removal, which means the card asks nothing of your list and everything of your timing. It wants a creature to have died already this turn, so it rewards you for trading, blocking, or simply pointing a removal spell at something before deploying it, and it punishes the impatient who slam it on an empty board. The deathtouch is what makes the flyer dangerous out of proportion to its toughness: a 3/2 evasive body that kills anything it touches in the air, and that any attacker has to respect on the ground, all for the cost of having engaged in combat one beat earlier. It is a card that turns the natural attrition of a black deck into a tempo windfall, and the better your deck already trades resources, the closer that windfall comes to printing a creature out of nowhere.