Kingpin's Pet

The cleanest demonstration of what extort wants to be attached to. Extort taxes your own casting: every spell you cast (on the cast trigger, whether or not it resolves) invites an optional payment that drains a point from each opponent and refunds it as life, and the keyword's power scales entirely with how many times you can afford that tax across a game. The mechanic does nothing if the body carrying it dies before you've cast much, which is why a small evasive flyer is the right vessel for it. A 2/2 with flying stays relevant on offense without demanding the board's attention the way a ground creature would, and a body this modest rarely pressures opponents into spending premium removal; it sits, it chips, and it converts every subsequent cast into a small life swing. The hybrid payment is the quiet engine here: extort can be paid with white or black, so the keyword punishes you less for an awkward manabase than most build-around abilities do, and the drain-plus-gain resolves against every opponent at once, which is where the math compounds at a crowded table. None of this is flashy in isolation. The point is accumulation: a flyer that bleeds the table one spell at a time and rebuilds your life total in the same breath, asking only that you keep casting and keep it alive long enough for the totals to matter.