Malik, Grim Manipulator
The enters trigger runs on a mechanic Magic almost never uses for permanent removal: the simultaneous secret choice, a hidden-commitment tension pointed at the board and revealed only after both sides commit. You and one opponent each pick one of that opponent's creatures blind, both picks reveal at once, and both are sacrificed. Because you commit before seeing their answer, this is a bluffing exchange rather than a clean pick: your own choice is guaranteed to die, but if you both name the same creature, only that one is lost. The design tension sits entirely in reading the opponent, and the payoff is that the sacrifice trigger folds back into a wider engine. Every opponent-side creature sacrifice, whether from this creature's own effect or from any other pressure applied to their board, mints a Treasure. That second ability is what separates this from a one-shot edict: pair it with anything that forces recurring sacrifices and the body becomes a color-fixing, ramp-generating value hub in Mardu that keeps paying long after the initial two-for-nothing. A 4/3 for five is a fragile shell for that kind of engine, but the mind-games removal and the Treasure faucet are doing work no single-target destroy effect can match.
