Loyal Subordinate

The Lieutenant ability bundles a body with a payoff that unlocks only when your commander is on the battlefield, and this one delivers the most direct version of that bargain: once the commander is down, every opponent bleeds three life as your combat step opens. The 3/1 stat line is fragile on purpose. It is the price for menace on the offense and a repeatable multi-opponent life drain that does not care about combat outcomes at all. Look at where the trigger sits in the turn. Because the drain fires before attacks are declared, the life loss lands whether or not the Subordinate connects, whether or not it even survives to swing; a chump-block on the menace threat stops the beatdown but never touches the drain. In a four-player pod that is nine life stripped off the table every turn you take one, and the condition keys on your commander being present rather than on this creature attacking, which is where the efficiency hides. This is a supporting piece rather than a headliner: a commander-dependent life-loss engine built for the multiplayer table, where the incremental math compounds fastest and where a body that trades poorly still earns its keep by taxing the whole board each turn it lives to see your combat.