Feast of the Victorious Dead
Aristocrats decks have always fought a scaling problem: a death-trigger that gives you one thing per creature (Blood Artist drains, Zulaport Cutthroat pings) rewards you for the volume of dying, but the payoff stays flat, a body's worth per body. This one changes the shape of the reward from a stream into a lump sum settled at end of turn. Instead of counting each death as it happens, it waits until the dust clears, tallies the whole turn's carnage once, and pays out in two currencies at the same time: life equal to the count, and that same count in +1/+1 counters you get to spread wherever they matter most. That distribution clause is the interesting part. The counters do not sit on the enchantment or spread themselves evenly; you decide, after the deaths, whether to pile them onto one attacker or seed several. It rewards a board that empties itself in a single explosive turn (a mass sacrifice, a wide alpha strike into removal) far more than one that trades a creature per turn over a long game, because the payoff is batched rather than incremental. The catch is that the counters ride on the creatures you place them on, so a board wipe carries them off along with the bodies; the only thing that persists through a sweeper is the enchantment itself, waiting to reload on the next turn the graveyard fills.
