Coastal Piracy

The blue half of an idea Wizards keeps coming back to: turning successful attacks into card advantage. The conditional is the whole design. The trigger only fires on combat damage to an opponent, which means the card does nothing until your creatures actually connect, and it rewards going wide rather than tall because each individual creature that gets through is a separate draw. Evasion is the multiplier here: a board of small flyers or unblockable attackers churns this into a refill engine, while a single fatty that gets chump-blocked draws you nothing. That structural demand (you have to be the beatdown, and you have to be the beatdown with bodies that land hits) is what pays for an enchantment that, on the right board, draws several cards a turn. It is an early ancestor of the long line of "attack-to-draw" payoffs that followed, most of which kept the same combat-damage clause precisely because it forces the controller into a posture (aggressive, board-committed, vulnerable to a sweeper) rather than handing over raw card advantage for free. The damage-dealing trigger also means it plays at the speed of the combat step, banking cards before your opponent's next removal window, which quietly rewards racing.