Lord Dregg, Insect Invader

Disappear is written one rung looser than the usual death-trigger payoff, and TMT hands you the fodder from several directions at once: Food tokens off Anchovy & Banana Pizza, Sneak triggers cycling permanents in and out, the Insect tokens the legend makes for itself. The condition checks at the beginning of your end step, so the loop only matters if you can keep one permanent leaving every turn. Cast it on a turn where something has already left, and the end step adds a 1/1 flier on top of the 3/2: two evasive bodies for four mana in a medium-speed format where most commons trade on the ground.

BG Sacrifice is the only deck paying the green pip honestly, and it is the home. There the activation is a late-game cantrip that feeds itself, since the sacrificed token is another permanent leaving the battlefield. Four mana for a draw is steep, but it loops back into Disappear and it gives a flooded board somewhere to go. The splash is close to free given Escape Tunnel and the hybrid commons already pulling these drafters into green. P1P3 to P1P5 there, climbing as you stack Food and token producers.

Mono-black and WB Sacrifice want the four-mana flier that snowballs blockers but strand the draw half entirely. P1P5 to P1P7 in those lanes, maindeck regardless.

The discipline is removal. Stomped by the Foot kills it before the end step ever arrives, and a Lord Dregg answered at instant speed in your draw step seeds nothing. The engine wants him to survive a turn cycle; the body invites the spell that denies it.

The interesting wrinkle is that the Disappear trigger does not care how a permanent leaves, only that one did. That decouples the engine from death triggers and points it at any deck where Golgari permanents churn: sacrificed Treasures, eaten Food, fetched-and-cracked lands, bounced tokens. The flying body and the token stream both push damage in the air while the activation refills your hand on the ground.

The two commanders that actually want this are Korvold, Fae-Cursed King and Gyome, Master Chef. Korvold already sacrifices a permanent nearly every turn, so Disappear is free upkeep; the end-step token then becomes fodder for the next Korvold trigger or fuel for the green-gated draw. Gyome wants the same loop one rung slower, turning Food into both tokens and cards. In both, this is the eighth-to-twelfth piece of the sacrifice submodule, not a curve play and not a build-around.

Bracket 2-3 is the home. The total cost on the draw ability ( plus a token) is too clumsy for cEDH, where Korvold lists want free outlets and fast mana, not a four-mana 3/2 that draws one card for four-and-a-token. It is also too synergy-dependent for precon-level Bracket 1.

Within the archetype it competes for attention with Mahadi, Emporium Master and the various end-step token makers; Mahadi rewards a busy turn with Treasures, this one rewards it with bodies and an optional card. Expect a sub-$5 secondary price on a recent printing.

The card is invisible outside Golgari permanent-churn shells. Its green mana symbol gives it a Golgari color identity, so mono-black aristocrats decks cannot legally run it at all, and Golgari decks that do not regularly lose a permanent each turn never see the token.

A green-black sacrifice payoff for Modern aristocrats brews, with a four-mana flier that wants a board churning permanents every turn to keep its end-step engine live. Modern's sacrifice and token decks have faster, cheaper payoffs that close games before a four-drop's slow token drip matters, and the green-gated draw activation is too expensive to pull a deck toward it. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play, and nothing in the format is asking for it. Cut for whatever your sacrifice payoff already is.

Legal since its March 2026 release, but yet to register in any tracked Standard deck this season. The structural problem is the green pip. The body casts on four mana in any black deck, but the half that justifies the card, the repeatable draw, asks for a green-black token shell that the format has not assembled. Standard's sacrifice decks have leaned mono-black or Golgari-without-this-axis, and none of them want a 3/2 flier whose end-step token requires a permanent to leave first and whose card advantage costs five total mana plus a token. The rate is honest to the point of being slow: a 1/1 flier per turn, converted into cards one at a time at sorcery speed, is the kind of grind a faster meta punishes before it pays. Lord Dregg is asking you to build a deck around permanents churning every turn, and no current green-black list is built that way.

It rotates with its parent block in late 2027, which gives it more runway than most of what shares its release. That window matters: a green-black sacrifice payoff that rewards any permanent leaving the battlefield is the sort of card that finds a home the moment the right token-maker or sacrifice outlet prints, and nothing on the announced schedule rules that out. For now the engine exists without a deck to run it, and the clock is generous enough that the read could change before rotation ever becomes the relevant question.

A four-mana flier for green-black token-and-sacrifice brews in Pioneer, the kind that want a second leaves-the-battlefield payoff to sit behind their better engines. The trouble is that the green pip on the draw ability asks you to commit to both colors for what amounts to a slow end-step token and an expensive sacrifice-for-cards mode. Nothing in the format is building around this yet, and it has not registered in tracked play so far. It goes in a kitchen-table aristocrats list and gets cut the moment a real payoff is available.

A 4-mana 3/2 flyer asking you to build a green-black sacrifice deck in a format where Black Lotus makes three mana on turn zero and Bazaar of Baghdad turns over a graveyard for free. The Disappear engine wants a slow churn of permanents that Vintage's combo and Workshops clocks never give it time to assemble, and the green pip on the draw half pays a mana tax the format has no room for. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Noise.

A four-mana 3/2 flier asking you to build a green-black permanents-churn shell, in a format where the sacrifice payoffs that see play are cheaper and the manabases are punished by Wasteland. At the body pays the Force of Will tax and offers nothing to justify it: a 3/2 flier that needs a permanent to leave each turn before it produces a single 1/1. The draw ability is gated behind a green pip, committing the deck to a two-color base that does not want to meet Wasteland, and plus a sacrifice is a glacial rate where Legacy's combo decks are already assembling their kill. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Does not clear the bar.