Deadbridge Shaman

The body is the engine, not the afterthought. With one toughness, a 3/1 trades into almost any creature, dies to a stray ping, and chump-blocks without regret, and every one of those deaths is exactly what you want, because the discard fires when it dies, not when it enters. That inversion is the whole design: most disruption asks you to keep a creature alive to keep its value online, but here the payoff is unlocked by the body's fragility. You attack into bad blocks, you sacrifice it to whatever outlet you have, you let it die in combat, and each time the opponent's hand gets thinner. The trigger is specific to death (the move from battlefield to graveyard), so bounce or exile cuts the payoff off entirely, which keeps the card honest as a thing you want to lose on your terms rather than have stranded. Sacrifice shells where creatures dying is already the plan turn this from a fair beater into a recurring hand-attack trigger, especially with any way to return it from the graveyard. The cost of that design is real, but it is not defensive: those three power make it a willing blocker that eats most two- and three-drops and pulls a card on the way out. What it gives up is durability, not impact; a 3/1 is built to be spent, and it spends well in any deck that profits from the dying rather than the standing.