Gluttonous Guest

A defensive body with a payoff wired to a payment mechanism, and the two halves point in opposite directions. The 1/4 frame wants to sit back and block; the Blood token it makes on arrival, along with the lifegain trigger for sacrificing one, wants you to spend, loot, and churn. That tension is the design's whole reason for existing. Blood tokens on their own are inert card filtration: discard a card, draw a card, gain nothing but selection. This Vampire attaches a small life reward to the act of cashing one in, which reframes the token from a rummage tool into a resource that pays you for cycling it away. The lifegain clause is deliberately broad, too: it triggers on any Blood token you sacrifice, not just the one this creature made, so it rewards a board already committed to a Blood engine rather than a single one-shot exchange. On its own the number is trivial: one life per token, an amount that matters only in aggregate. The card is built for the deck that turns Blood into a recurring cost, where each activation quietly nudges a life total the way an aristocrats deck banks incidental drain. Read in isolation it looks like an unremarkable filler creature with a durable rear; read as a piece of a lifegain-plus-token shell, it is a common that keeps the meter running.