Gravelighter

A conditional edict stapled to an evasive body, and the condition is what the whole design turns on. The default mode (each player sacrificing a creature) is a symmetric edict that no aggressor wants to fire when they're the one under pressure, which is why the card reads as a reward for a board state you've already been building toward. If a creature died this turn (your own token to a sacrifice outlet, a blocker traded in combat, a chump before the trigger resolves), the edict clause never fires and you draw a card instead. That flip converts a mediocre attrition tool into a two-for-one, and it means the deck holding this wants a steady drip of small deaths anyway. The friction is that the good half asks you to have already spent a creature this turn, so the payoff and the setup compete for the same board. Aristocrats decks resolve that tension for free: they are always killing their own creatures, so the death check is a formality and the edict mode barely surfaces. In a deck without that engine, the card is honest downside, an edict you sometimes wish you hadn't cast into an empty-graveyard turn. It rewards a specific kind of sacrifice-oriented build without collapsing outside it, and the 2/2 flier on the front still does something when neither half of the trigger lands the way you'd like.