Death's Presence

Most death-payoffs in green's tradition give you a fixed reward: a token, a card, a point of drain. This one scales to the corpse. The counters it deposits equal the dead creature's power, which inverts the usual incentive of a sacrifice engine: instead of feeding small bodies into an outlet for incremental value, you want to throw your biggest threats overboard and recoup their mass on a survivor. A creature dies, its power becomes durable +1/+1 counters somewhere else, and nothing is lost so much as relocated. That makes it a genuine accumulator rather than a one-shot, since each death adds to a single growing target if you keep aiming it at the same creature. The friction is real and structural: the engine sits inert until a creature already dies, it asks you to be running a board built around that loss, and the six mana buys no board impact on the turn you cast it. It rewards a deck that treats creatures as fuel with high power-to-cost ratios, where a Wurm or a fattened beast can be chumped, traded, or sacrificed and still leave a permanent mark. The counters also survive what the creature didn't, so a removal-heavy opponent ends up handing you a steadily larger problem each time they answer a threat. Slow, build-around, and only as good as the power totals you can afford to lose.