Elenda's Hierophant
Two payoffs stacked into one Vampire, and the second is quietly the reason to run the first. Lifegain-matters engines usually cash out in small, incremental ways: a counter here, a token there, value that compounds slowly and never quite threatens to close a game. This one converts that accumulation into a burst. Every life-gain event grows the body, and then death turns whatever that body has become into a swarm of lifelink tokens equal to its power. The design treats the counters as stored energy: the more life you gain across a turn cycle, the larger the eventual token payout, so the card wants to die at its peak rather than survive. That reframes the removal you would normally dread into a trigger you are happy to walk into, and it rewards sacrifice outlets that let you pick the moment, since the token count is read off power the instant it dies. The lifelink tokens it leaves behind are the real dividend: an army of small attackers that gains life on contact, which any other lifegain payoff on your side of the table can then convert into fresh value. It is a self-fueling aristocrats piece disguised as a fragile flyer, and the 1/1 frame is the honest part: without a stream of lifegain behind it, the whole engine is a flying body and a modest death rattle.
