Devouring Sugarmaw // Have for Dinner
A 6/6 with menace and trample for four mana is a rate that should not exist without a leash, and the upkeep clause is the leash: each turn you either feed it a spare permanent or it lies down tapped and offers nothing on offense. That converts the body from a beater into an appetite. Its ideal home is a deck that manufactures disposable permanents anyway (Food, Treasure, Clue, or a go-wide token shell), where the recurring tax reads less as a cost than as a sink for chaff you were generating regardless.
Have for Dinner is what holds the package together. It is a playable instant in its own right (a 1/1 Human and a Food for two mana, castable early), and it stocks the board with exactly the kind of expendable fuel the Horror later wants to devour. So the two sides feed each other across turns: you spend the front to assemble a small resource base, exile the card, then cast the creature when there is already something to burn. That sequencing is the design's honest bargain. The stat line is the bribe; the recurring sacrifice is the bill, and the front half hands you the means to pay it before you ever cast the body. The tension it resolves is the old problem of the overstatted black beater: how to sell a body this cheap without making it a free win, answered here with a tax that lands hardest on the decks least equipped to pay it.
