Dargo, the Shipwrecker

The seven in the mana cost is aspirational. Nominally a seven-mana 7/5, this Giant Pirate reads its sacrifices twice: each artifact or creature fed to the additional cost knocks off the price, and each other artifact or creature already sacrificed that turn knocks off another . The distinction matters. A permanent sacrificed to Dargo itself pays only the first discount; the second clause is fueled by everything a sacrifice engine has been chewing through beforehand. Which is exactly the point: in a shell where fodder is dying anyway (spent Treasures, expendable dorks, aristocrat triggers already cashed), the turn's body count is what makes the giant cheap, so the more your board has already been eaten, the harder Dargo lands. The generic portion collapses fast, but the is fixed: no amount of sacrifice touches the colored pip, so the floor is one red mana, not free. Partner extends the arithmetic sideways, pairing Dargo with a second command-zone body that runs the outlet or spits out the tokens to keep the discount fed from the opening turns. Trample is the plain line of text and the most important one: a fodder strategy usually wins by attrition, a slow drip of value with no closer. A 7/5 that spills damage past chump blockers converts all that emptied board into an actual clock, a finisher priced by how much you were already willing to throw into the fire.