Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

The end-step trigger is the transactional half of an old lineage: hand each opponent a choice between paying a creature and paying life, then scale the life half so declining hurts more the deeper the game runs. What makes this build distinct is the fuel source. The drain isn't fixed; it counts the instants and sorceries in your graveyard, so the same yard you're filling to power a spellslinger deck is also the number that decides how hard the tax bites. The surveil-on-cast trigger feeds that graveyard while smoothing draws, so every instant or sorcery you cast nudges both engines forward at once: a deeper yard for the end-step math, and better cards toward the top. That coupling is the design's actual center. Most black edicts stand alone, static in what they threaten; here the threat compounds with the deck you were already building. The trigger is fully asymmetric, and that's the whole point: it fires at the beginning of your end step, hitting each opponent independently the turn the ability comes online, so a table of three each declining pays the full drain three times over. A 4/5 for five is a sturdy enough body to weather removal and keep the engine ticking across turns, but the edict doesn't wait on the creature surviving a rotation: cast it, and the tax lands the same turn.