Lethal Throwdown

One mana for unconditional destruction of a creature or planeswalker is a rate black almost never gets without strings attached, and the string here is a body fed to the spell as an additional cost. What sharpens the design is that it prices that body two ways. Sacrifice any creature and you get clean, if expensive, removal. Sacrifice a modified creature (one carrying Equipment, an Aura, or a counter) and the spell refunds a card, turning what would be a two-for-one against yourself into a wash. That refund clause is where the whole design lives: it steers the card away from generic aristocrats fodder and toward decks already gearing up their creatures, so the soldier you throw was one you built around anyway, and the replacement keeps the board coming. It reads at a glance like a sacrifice-outlet piece, but the modified rider points it squarely at equipment and auras shells, where a creature wearing a sword is worth more dead-and-drawn than most one-mana removal is worth cast on its own. Sacrifice-cost removal has always carried a structural flaw: pay a creature to kill a creature and you have quietly conceded the exchange. Bolting the card-draw to the modified condition flips that math, so the cost reads as a payoff rather than a tax, provided you built the board to earn it.