Lys Alana Informant

Two triggers off one body, and the pairing of when they fire is the whole trick. A 3/1 for two mana is built to swing into the red zone and die there, so the entry surveil and the death surveil aren't redundant: they bracket the creature's likely arc. It smooths a draw as it lands and smooths another as it trades away, which means the aggressive body you were already going to lose pays a dividend at both ends of its short life. Surveil on a dies trigger is the quiet part. Filling the graveyard isn't just card selection here; it's fuel, feeding whatever cares about creatures or cards in the yard while the Elf itself is doing the trading. The 3/1 statline is what keeps the value in check: fragile enough that you get the death trigger reliably against any board, small enough in toughness that it can't grind out attrition on its own. This is the aggressive-but-graveyard-adjacent design that gives a beatdown deck a reason to want its creatures dead, turning combat losses into deck-thinning gains without asking the pilot to build around a sacrifice engine.