Bushmeat Poacher

The 2/4 body is the whole design argument here. Black sacrifice-payoffs usually want to die themselves or come with a fragile frame, but this one is built to survive combat and keep the outlet open: a four-toughness wall that blocks all day while it converts your board into cards and life at the rate of one activation per turn. The sacrifice cost asks for one generic mana on top of the tap, which is the throttle that keeps it from being a free repeatable engine; you can only feed it once per cycle, so the card rewards a steady stream of expendable bodies rather than an explosive turn. The lifegain scaling off toughness rather than power is the quieter wrinkle, and it points the card toward defensive fodder (mana dorks, deathtouch blockers, anything with a fat rear number) instead of the aggressive one-drops most sacrifice decks lean on. That is a subtle steer away from the typical aristocrats build and toward a grindier attrition plan where every creature that has outlived its usefulness still cashes out for a card and a life buffer. It is not a combo piece and does not pretend to be one: the tap and the once-per-turn ceiling make sure of that. What it offers is a slow, resilient conversion of a stalled board into resources, packaged on a creature durable enough to stick around long enough to matter.