Harvester of Souls

The black mirror to Skullclamp's promise, paid out as a passive engine rather than a one-shot. Where a sacrifice payoff asks you to feed it, this one charges nothing and triggers off any nontoken creature's death, yours or your opponent's, in combat or by removal. The deathtouch is the quiet engineering: a 5/5 that trades with anything it touches turns every block and every attack into a card, because a creature dying to its deathtouch is itself a trigger. That coupling is the whole point. The body wants to fight, fighting generates corpses, and corpses generate cards, so the card threatens advantage simply by sitting in combat. The nontoken restriction stops the loop before it runs away: it can't spiral on a board of saproling chaff or spirit tokens, so the cards it draws stay tethered to real attrition rather than a token engine eating itself. This is mid-era black's idea of a "death matters" payoff, rewarding the grindy, removal-heavy game black has always wanted to play, sized for a slower table where six mana buys an inevitable edge rather than a quick clock. It is not a combo enabler so much as a tax on the very thing it is best at causing: the more creatures die around it, the further ahead it gets.