Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash is what turns a passive payoff into an ambush, and it is the reason the count actually pays. A refill keyed to creatures that died under your control this turn is a fine aristocrats reward on its own, but holding up mana and dropping the body once the deaths are already banked lets you cash in at the peak instead of firing early and hoping the board cooperates. Because the counting is same-turn, the flash also stretches to your opponent's turn: cast it after a sweeper resolves, or in the back half of a defensive combat, and it rakes in a draw for every creature you just lost. The 3/1 body is cheap and fragile by design, and once it dies it becomes a corpse in the count for the next payoff you cast, whether that is a second copy, a bigger draw spell, or a reanimation effect that returns the trigger to the battlefield for a second helping. The wording rewards deaths, not sacrifices, so aggressive combat trades feed it as readily as a dedicated outlet does, which quietly widens the shells that want it beyond pure sacrifice engines. This is black's version of a card-advantage burst most colors buy at full retail, priced instead in bodies you were spending anyway.