Dusk Urchins

Combat is the fuse here. Every attack or block ticks the 4/3 closer to zero, and the death trigger cashes whatever counters accumulated into raw card draw. That coupling is the whole design: the card pays you to send it into harm's way, then pays again precisely because it died doing it, with the windfall scaling to how recklessly you spent it. It resolves the old problem of justifying a fragile body. Rather than protecting the creature, the design rewards throwing it away, and the more combats you wring out before it falls, the larger the haul. A sacrifice outlet short-circuits the math entirely, letting you load it up and then dump the whole stack at instant speed without waiting for combat to finish the job, turning a slow grindy creature into a burst of cards on demand. Among black creatures that convert their own death into card advantage, most draw a flat number; this one builds its yield over several turns through deliberate combat decisions. That makes it less a value engine you sit behind and more a clock you wind yourself, one combat step at a time, choosing exactly how much toughness to spend against how many cards you want at the end.