Liliana's Reaver

The reward for connecting is steep enough that this belongs in the body of a grindy attrition deck rather than at the front of a beatdown curve. A single unblocked hit strips a card from the opponent's hand and leaves a tapped 2/2 Zombie behind, so every successful attack widens your board and shrinks their options at once. Deathtouch is what makes the combat math hold together: a 4/3 that trades up against anything it touches forces unfavorable blocks, and any block that lets it through pays the discard-and-token tax. The defender is caught between losing a creature to deathtouch and losing a card while ceding tempo to the token. The catch is the body's three toughness: chump it, kill it before damage, or simply outrace it, and the engine never turns over. That conditionality is why it functions best when the board already tilts your way, compounding an advantage rather than creating one out of nothing; a control deck that has stabilized can ride one of these to a slow, suffocating finish, but it will not stage a comeback from behind. It belongs to the lineage of black creatures whose bodies are incidental and whose combat trigger is the whole point: the slow-bleed tradition that punishes you for taking the hit, then makes the next hit harder to survive.