Eye of Vecna

For two mana up front you draw a card and spend two life, then earn the option to run that same transaction on each of your upkeeps for as long as your life total can bankroll it. This is the old black card-draw covenant (life as currency, cards as payout) reprinted onto a colorless artifact so any deck can sign it. What separates it from the single-shot draw spells it descends from is that the recurring payment is optional and self-throttling: each of your upkeeps you decide fresh whether two mana and two life buy one more card, so the engine calibrates to whatever runway is left. That opt-out clause is what keeps the bleed survivable. It is not a fixed commitment you make once and live with; it is a drip you can shut off the moment the life loss stops being worth it, which makes it a low-risk mana sink for a deck sitting on floating mana and nothing pressing to spend it on. The legendary tag and the flavor supply the rest: this is one half of a relic, the counterpart to Hand of Vecna, each functional alone but built to imply the larger artifact they assemble into. Standalone it is a clean, repeatable draw permanent priced for the incidental bleed; the promise of completing the set is what gives it weight beyond a colorless cantrip that never leaves the table.