Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

The combat trigger reads like generosity, but the fine print does the balancing: it fires once per creature that connects with an opponent regardless of damage dealt, and it fires for whoever controls that creature, including you. In a mono-black shell where your attackers reliably land hits, that reads as a private card-advantage tap paid for in life. Set it loose on a full table and it becomes communal fuel, coaxing every opponent to feed the engine one point at a time. That is the fork in the design: unlike a strictly one-sided draw like Dark Confidant, this pulls you into a race where everyone digs deeper so long as the swings keep landing. The larger activated mode functions as the payoff: a graveyard-agnostic, discard-fueled exile that cashes a bloated hand into an opponent's top cards, then lets you play them for free. It is costly to run and taxing on your own resources, so it works less as a repeatable spigot than as a way to convert a stalled board and a full grip into sudden tempo. The flavor tracks the character who once had the run of Dominaria's mind: he now lets every mind at the table draw deeper, always for a price. The 3/3 body is almost beside the point; what you are actually deploying is a drawing subgame every creature in play has to reckon with.