Gríma Wormtongue

The static line is the loud part: from a 1/4 body priced to weather early aggression, shutting off opponents' lifegain is a hatebear clause aimed squarely at recursion, incidental-drain, and stabilization decks that lean on climbing back above the curve. The activated ability carries the character work. A repeatable tap-to-sacrifice outlet that costs an opponent a life is fodder-hungry aristocrat glue, and the toughness lets this sit on defense between activations rather than folding to a stray attacker. The reward for feeding it legendaries is the clever half of the construction: sacrifice something legendary and the life-loss also amasses Orcs 2, growing an Army token that converts your spent legends into a persistent board. That clause points the card at a build stocked with cheap legendary creatures (a texture that has grown denser as legend-matters designs and one-drop legends proliferated), turning pure attrition into a slow assembly of pressure. The 1/4 will not win on stats, and the sacrifice is one creature per turn, capped by the tap; those are the ceilings that keep it from spiraling out of hand. What it offers instead is a value engine wearing a control piece's clothes: a lifegain lock stapled to a grindy body that quietly assembles an Orc while it whittles a life total down.