Ichor Drinker

The elegance here is that the body isn't the point: a lifelinking one-drop is a fine early play, but this card is designed to be spent twice. The second use lives in the graveyard, and it's an activated ability, not a death payoff: you pay , exile the card, and Incubate 2. That activation only works as a sorcery, and the restriction shapes everything: you cannot ambush with the incubated body the way an instant-speed spawn would let you. The value is real but always telegraphed a turn ahead, because you have to spend a main phase on it. What makes the second use satisfying is that the Incubator doesn't arrive ready to fight. It's a staged payoff: the token needs a separate to transform, and what it flips into is a 0/0 that only survives because the counters are keeping it standing. So the sequence is deliberately unpacked across turns and mana, never a single tempo swing. The result is a black one-drop that keeps earning after it's in the yard, feeding sacrifice engines while it's on the battlefield and offering a growable artifact creature later, but only if you choose to pay for it. Incubate as a mechanic leans on this kind of deferred-value design, and this is a clean expression of it: cheap enough to trade away early, structured so that trade is only the first installment of what you already spent a card on.