Cosmos Elixir

Two payouts hiding in one artifact, split by a single threshold: your starting life total. Sit below the line and the trigger hands you two life, a slow buffer against a clock you are trying to outlast. Climb above it and that same trigger fills your hand at no additional cost, one card per turn for as long as you stay in the black. That toggle is the whole design. Where Phyrexian Arena bills you in life on a fixed schedule no matter the board state, this device reverses the order of operations: heal first, cross the threshold, then collect the card. The result plays defense while you are stabilizing and offense once you have stabilized, and neither mode asks you to do anything but pass into your end step.

The trigger fires exclusively during your own end step, which keeps the payout paced to your turns rather than reacting to what the opponent does. That timing caps its power: it never affects combat, never interacts at instant speed, and never draws while you are behind. Think of it less as a value engine and more as a governor on your life total, turning surplus health into cardflow once the account is positive. It earns the draw by making you win the life race first; slip back below the line and it reverts to healing mode, climbing back toward the threshold in small increments rather than stalling out. The two states are the same trigger reading the same number differently, and the card is never doing nothing.