Marionette Apprentice

Marionette Master condensed into a two-drop, and the compression tells you where aristocrats design has gone. The classic drain payoff lived on an expensive body that turned each treasure or token death into a scaling burst of life loss; here the tax shrinks to one life per death, but the price of admission is a fraction of what it used to be. Fabricate 1 is the quietly clever part: the same enter trigger that fleshes out the board can hand you a Servo token, a disposable artifact whose whole purpose is to die into the very trigger this card cares about. The card is self-priming. It manufactures its own fuel, then bleeds an opponent for spending it. What it asks in return is a deck built to lose permanents on purpose: sacrifice outlets, token generators, artifacts worth more in the yard than on the battlefield. A lone 1/2 that pings for one when another creature or artifact you control dies is nearly nothing; wired into a machine that sacrifices creatures and artifacts by the fistful, each death becomes a mandatory life-loss trigger the opponent cannot interact with. The design is a bet that reach, once locked behind five and six mana, is safe to hand a black deck for two, so long as the drain per death stays fixed at exactly one.