Gluttonous Troll
The sacrifice pump is where a fair Golgari body reveals its second gear. A 3/3 with trample for four mana is honest; the enters-the-battlefield Food is a modest lifegain rider; but the repeatable ability that eats another nonland permanent for +2/+2 is what commits the card to a plan. Any expendable permanent you control becomes potential trample damage, and the design is built to eat the very Food it produces: the tokens are ready fodder for the pump, and the pump is what turns a grindy midrange board into reach. That loop (make Food, sacrifice Food, swing bigger) is the through-line of the aristocrats-adjacent decks this style of design leaned into, where a permanent's second life is as ammunition. The opponent-scaling Food count keeps the enters-the-battlefield value honest against a single opponent while quietly rewarding a crowded table with a bigger sacrifice reserve. What it is not is a build-around engine on its own; it has no recursion, no death payoff, no way to refill the fodder it spends. It is the finisher-shaped piece in a sacrifice shell, the thing that converts a wide, disposable board into lethal trample, and it leans on the rest of the deck to keep the fuel coming.


