Midnight Snack

Two black staples fused into one enchantment: the incidental Food engine and the lifedrain payoff. Aggressive black decks have long wanted lifegain that does more than stall, and drain effects have long wanted a reliable stream of triggers to feed on. This card puts both halves in the same slot and links them: the raid trigger only makes a Food when you attacked, so the value comes from playing forward, not sitting back, and the sacrifice ability reads whatever life you gained this turn and mirrors it as loss to an opponent. That coupling is the design's whole shape. A single Food eaten at instant speed sets X to 3; stack a Food redemption with any other lifegain in a turn (Soul Warden triggers, a Fireblade-style drainer, a lifelink swing) and the number climbs to whatever the board produced. The enchantment is patient by nature: it wants to sit, accumulate Food, and then cash out for a chunk of reach in a single end step or combat turn. It is doing the work of an aristocrats payoff without asking for a sacrifice theme, folding the lifegain-into-lifeloss conversion that decks used to assemble across three cards into one three-mana permanent that also builds its own fuel.