Innocuous Rat

Dying is the whole point here. A 1/1 for two mana isn't a body anyone plays for combat; it's built to be spent, and the death trigger is where the value hides. Block, chump, get sacrificed, eat a burn spell, and the death converts into a manifested 2/2 plus a card binned in the graveyard, with that hidden threat waiting to be flipped for whatever it costs. Where ordinary death fodder hands you a flat token or a single card, this one folds selection into the payoff: you peek at the top two, keep the better half as a body, and pitch the other with recursion in mind. The design leans on the same insight behind any sacrifice fodder, that a creature's floor is irrelevant when the ceiling lives in what happens after it leaves play, but it upgrades the reward from a static token into a filtered manifest. The result is a creature that never wants to be alive; it wants to be resource, sitting on the board as a promise that its death costs the opponent tempo and nets you a scaled-up threat. That reframing (from creature-as-attacker to creature-as-deferred-value) is what lets it slot into any deck that treats its own board as inventory to be cashed in rather than an army to be kept intact.