Infernal Tribute

A wealth-engine built on the idea that every permanent you control is a card waiting to be cashed in. The triple-black cost is the design tell: this is not splashable insurance but a commitment to a deck that wants to liquidate its own board, turning spent creatures, used artifacts, and dead enchantments into fresh cards two mana at a time. The nontoken restriction does real balancing work, ruling out the obvious abuse of generating disposable bodies to feed the engine for free. What it really does is reframe the graveyard-as-resource question: instead of recurring permanents, it lets you spend them on their way out, smoothing a long game where a board that has stopped attacking still has value to extract. Because the activation carries no tap cost and no per-turn limit, it fires as many times as you have permanents to sacrifice and mana to spend, a slow drip of advantage rather than a single burst. It belongs to black's older tradition of paying for power, here with permanents as the currency rather than life or discard; the loop it enables (sacrifice for value, recur the sacrificed thing, sacrifice again) is the seed of an entire archetype that later sets would name and refine.