Lampad of Death's Vigil

A drain payoff wearing a body cheap enough to justify its own presence, which is the whole trick of aristocrat glue: the sacrifice outlet and the reward live in the same slot. The activation costs mana, and that cost does real work, because it stops you from chaining sacrifices for free; each drain is a deliberate spend rather than a loop. That price is the difference between this and the free-fire outlets that anchor combo kills, and it is why the card reads as a value engine rather than a wincon on its own. The two-life swing per creature (opponents down one, you up one) turns a board of expendable tokens into a slow clock and a life buffer at once. Where passive death-drainers like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance trigger automatically whenever a creature dies, this one asks you to pay and pull the trigger yourself, buying you the choice of when to convert a board into life swing rather than bleeding it out one death at a time. The drain hits each opponent rather than a single target, so it scales with the table without asking you to point it anywhere. The 1/3 frame matters more than it looks: it blocks early aggression and survives the small-ball removal that clears a one-toughness enabler, so the engine tends to stay online exactly when a sacrifice deck needs it to.