Havoc Jester

A 5/5 for five is unremarkable red statistics; the trigger is what makes the body worth caring about. The design sits squarely in the aristocrats lineage, the ping-per-death engine that Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat established on the drain axis. This one converts the same sacrifice input into removal and reach instead of lifeswing, which is a meaningfully different tension: the "any target" clause points wherever a sacrifice loop needs pressure that turn, whether that is a face, a blocker, or a small planeswalker. The precise wording is what defines its shell: it cares that you sacrifice a permanent, not that a creature dies. A chump-blocker trading in combat does nothing here; a token or a spent Treasure fed to a sacrifice outlet does. That distinction pulls it toward decks built on outlets and expendable fodder rather than decks that simply die a lot. The restraint that keeps it fair is the increment: one damage at a time, dealt only as fast as you can feed the outlet, and a five-mana 5/5 invites removal before the engine ever gets going. So it asks for a board already primed to sacrifice rather than rewarding a single sacrifice on cast. As a payoff, it fills the reach slot in a sacrifice shell: not the engine's centerpiece, but the piece that converts a grind into lethal.