Demon of Wailing Agonies
A 4/4 flier for five is unremarkable on its own; the card's whole proposition sits behind the Lieutenant clause, which only fires when the legend that anchors your deck is actually in play. Meet that condition and the body swells to 6/6 and gains an edict on connection, forcing the defending player to sacrifice a creature of their choice every time it lands a hit through the air. The clause is built for grind, not for the kill: because the defender picks what dies, one swing rarely ends a game, but repeated connections wear a board down steadily, and flying keeps those connections coming. The leash is deliberate. Both the stat bump and the sacrifice trigger depend on the commander being on the table, not idling in the command zone, so the engine is inert early and has to be earned by resolving the legend and defending it. Remove the commander and the ability stays printed but grants nothing: a plain 4/4 flier with a dormant clause until the legend returns. That conditionality is the price the mechanic pays for handing every deck an edict-on-a-stick by construction. It offers a real payoff to the player who protects the creature powering it, and precisely nothing to the one who lets their commander stay dead.
