Ceremonial Knife

Cheap combat-damage payoffs usually reward their bearer directly; this one routes the reward into card selection instead. What sets it apart is the trigger's breadth: any combat damage produces a Blood token, damage to a blocker as readily as damage to a player, so the equipment does not care whether its wearer is evasive or just willing to trade blows. Every attack that resolves into damage spins off a rummage on a stick, folding your dig into a combat step you were already committed to. The +1/+0 is a nudge, not the engine: the engine is the steady drip of Blood, each one a filter that upgrades a stranded card and a token to feed sacrifice and discard effects downstream. The sorcery-speed equip and the sorcery-speed casting keep the package honest: you cannot flash it onto a surprise attacker or slide it mid-combat, so the filtering accrues turn by turn rather than in one explosive swing. Within the wider Blood-and-vampire matter design, it sits at the low, patient end: a repeatable Blood generator that also lends one creature a small stat boost. The trade is patience for consistency. It will not swing a race, but it quietly smooths every draw for as long as its bearer keeps swinging into combat.