Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Symmetry with a black thumb on the scale: the +1 makes every player pitch a card, but the opponent who cannot (a hellbent grip, an empty hand) takes three life instead. That clause is the whole trick. Against a wrung-out opponent the plus becomes a repeatable three to the face, a slow burn that punishes an empty grip; against a full hand it strips a resource. Either way, the activation quietly feeds your own graveyard, and that is where the rest of the walker collects. The -3 gives a single creature -X/-X for X equal to the cards in your yard, so it does not spend the graveyard, it reads it: a removal spell that grows in step with every card the plus has thrown away, big enough by the mid-game to erase almost anything. The ultimate closes the loop, turning that stocked graveyard into a recurring reanimation emblem so the cards you pitched and the creatures the game has buried become fair game to steal back with haste. The whole design orbits the graveyard from three angles: the plus fills it, the minus sizes off it, the emblem harvests it every combat. It rewards grinding your own hand down alongside the opponent's life total, and it asks the same question each turn: do you have a card to lose, and if you don't, can you afford the life?
