Dockside Chef

Most black sacrifice-for-cards effects are picky about what they eat: only creatures, only your own tokens, only a named type. This one takes an artifact or creature without distinction, so Treasure tokens, spent Clues, chump-blockers, and dedicated fodder are all fair game for the same card. The rate is held in check by charging real mana each time, a tax on top of whatever you feed it, which makes this a hungry engine rather than a costless one. The 1/2 is a quietly load-bearing detail: a body that shrugs off a point of incidental damage keeps drawing across combat and survives the sweepers that clip one-toughness boards. Printing it as an enchantment creature underlines the intent, a durable fixture meant to fire again whenever you can foot the cost, not a spell that draws once and leaves. Its home is the aristocrats grind plan, where bodies were already being thrown onto sacrifice outlets and the only open question was whether each death produced something. Here it produces a card, which converts the gap between running dry and refueling indefinitely into a repeatable activated cost.