Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin
The Vampire tribe already had its flagship general, so this design does something stranger: it reframes what it means to lose him. Death is not a setback here. The anthem-body flips into a coffin that spawns a lifelinking token each of your upkeeps and, after three bloodline counters, resurrects him on the far side of the transform. It is a closed loop where killing the creature side advances your board instead of stopping it, which is what the four-mana 4/4 rate is buying: a destruction spell aimed at the front face returns you a coffin engine rather than a dead card.
The wrinkle is that the two faces demand different answers, and the reflexive one is wrong. The creature side wears an anthem that turns every 1/1 Vampire into a 2/2, so pointing a kill spell at it looks correct, and that is exactly what feeds the coffin. Exile is the clean out for that half: it answers the body without arming the death trigger. The coffin, once it flips, has no such protection. It is an artifact with no death trigger, so ordinary destruction retires it for good, and it is artifact removal, not creature removal, that stops the token stream. Each face pressures the answer to the other, which is why a clean break requires the right tool aimed at the right side. This inverts the Vampire deck's classic fragility, where the anthem evaporates the instant the lord dies; here that death is the ramp toward the return.
