Forsworn Paladin

Two jobs share one tiny body, and the wiring between them is the whole point. The first activation manufactures a Treasure for a life and a tap; the second pumps a creature by +2/+0. Left alone, those are unremarkable rate on a one-drop. What ties them is the conditional deathtouch clause: if the mana spent to fire the pump came from a Treasure, the boosted creature also gains deathtouch, turning any attacker or blocker into a lethal trade. So the same permanent both generates the resource and cares about how that resource is spent, a self-contained loop where the setup activation feeds the payoff activation. That closed circuit is the design that lifts it above the pile of "sac a Treasure for mana" cards that treat Treasures as generic ramp; here the token is a keyword trigger disguised as fixing. The friction is deliberate: converting a life-and-tap into +2/+0-with-deathtouch costs meaningful mana across two activations and leaves the paladin tapped, so the payoff arrives slowly and telegraphs itself. Read as a Knight it slots into aggressive black tribal shells; read as an engine it is a mana sink that scales with a Treasure-heavy board, quietly threatening removal-by-combat every turn you have mana to spare.