Brazen Upstart

A 4/2 with vigilance priced to trade and paid back for doing so: the body wants to attack into removal and blockers alike, and the death trigger turns every one of those trades into a dig for the next threat. The design logic sits in the clash. Vigilance normally rewards you for keeping a creature alive to defend, while the death clause rewards you for throwing it into the red zone and losing it. This card is comfortable in both roles, and that dual footing is the point: it profitably attacks when the math looks bad, because it refills on a creature card either way. The dig is deliberately soft, though. You look at five, take at most one creature, and bottom the rest in random order rather than stacking your draws. That keeps it a replacement engine rather than a card-advantage machine, and it leaves you empty-handed when the top five whiff on creatures. As a support piece for a low-curve creature deck, it slots into the run of cards that want bodies dying and want the board restocked without spending real resources. The wedge cost is the tax for stapling an aggressive stat line to a recursion-adjacent effect in the same slot.