Canonized in Blood

The descend mechanic asks a familiar question in a new grammar: how do you reward a deck for feeding its own graveyard without simply counting mill or reanimation? The trigger here fires only on turns you actually put a permanent card into the yard, which turns the enchantment into a metronome for a self-sacrificing, permanent-heavy shell rather than a card that grows on autopilot. That end-step timing is the quiet discipline: the counter lands after your main phase, so you cannot use it to win a combat you have already entered, and it rewards you for having set up the descend earlier in the turn rather than pivoting to it reactively. The sacrifice clause is the reason it never rots as a live-target-starved permanent once the board stalls. Rather than sitting idle, the enchantment cashes itself in for a 4/3 flying Vampire Demon, converting a stalled counter-engine into a single evasive threat. That cost is steep by design, priced as a late-game release valve rather than a plan A, so the card wants you to spend most of the game accreting counters and only fold the enchantment away when the incremental growth has stopped mattering. It is a counter-generator built for grindy attrition decks: patient on the front end, with a body waiting at the back when patience runs out.