Fain, the Broker
A conversion engine dressed as a warlock. The whole design is a network of taps that turn one kind of resource into another: creatures into counters, counters into Treasure, artifacts into flying Inklings, and mana back into another activation. Each conversion ability shares the tap symbol, which is the throttle that keeps a 3/3 body from doing everything at once; the untap is the release valve, letting you run two conversions in a turn when the payoff justifies the mana. What makes the loop matter is how the second ability reads counters as fungible: it removes a counter from any creature you control and does not care where that counter came from, whether it landed there via the first ability, a proliferate effect, a Modular trigger, or a graft-style handout, so any counters-matters board becomes raw Treasure. The first ability pointing two +1/+1 counters at a target for a sacrifice cost means Fain both feeds the counter supply and eats it, and the aristocrat and artifact-token lines give a sacrifice deck two separate sinks that both leave value behind. It is a rate-agnostic piece: the numbers on the individual abilities are modest, and the point is that they chain, each one manufacturing the fuel the next one wants.




