Gavony Unhallowed
Most aristocrat payoffs cash a death trigger out for something immediate: a drain point, a card, damage to the dome. This one banks it instead. Each time another creature you control dies, the 2/4 body gets a counter, so it grows in proportion to how much you've sacrificed rather than spiking on any single death. That shifts the math from burst to accrual: the more your board has churned, the more menacing the survivor on the far side becomes, and a defensive four-toughness frame keeps it alive long enough to actually collect. The design lives or dies on chaff. It wants a token engine, a sacrifice outlet, recurring small bodies to feed it, the kind of expendable fodder that makes each individual death cheap but the cumulative tally large. Pair it with anything that mass-produces and then mass-sacrifices, and the counters pile up fast enough that the card eventually outgrows ordinary removal. The vulnerability is the flip side of that strength: a single piece of targeted interaction erases the whole investment, since the counters live on one creature rather than spreading across the board. It is the patient member of the death-trigger family, a card that asks you to play a long aristocrats game and rewards you only if you survive to spend it.
