Liliana's Devotee

A death payoff and an anthem folded into one body, built for the recurring tension every aristocrats deck faces: you want creatures to die, and you want a board left over afterward. The end-step trigger only cares that a creature died, not whose or how, so it converts the incidental attrition of chump blocks, removal, and sacrifice fodder into a fresh 2/2 for a modest tax. That token then feeds the anthem, and the anthem in turn makes every subsequent Zombie (including the ones this card just made) hit harder, so the two abilities compound on themselves over successive end steps rather than sitting side by side. The design ties the mana sink to a condition you were already meeting: an aristocrats or Zombie shell fires off deaths as a matter of course, and the payment window at the end step lets you spend leftover mana rather than committing it up front. What keeps it grounded is the pace. The token arrives once per turn, gated behind an intervening 'if' clause that checks whether a creature actually died before the trigger goes on the stack, so the engine grinds rather than explodes; it rewards a long game where the anthem and the token supply slowly outscale a smaller board. It is a workmanlike lord-plus-engine hybrid, the kind of creature that does not win a turn on its own but quietly bends a war of attrition once it survives a rotation of the table.