M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect

Edict effects almost always tie their trigger to the act of casting: you spend a card and the mana, and in exchange an opponent parts with a creature of their choice. Chainer's Edict, Diabolic Edict, Fleshbag Marauder, the whole lineage anchors the sacrifice to a spell or an enter-the-battlefield event. The reframing here untethers the trigger from casting entirely and hangs it on a resource you were spending anyway: the second card you draw each turn. That turns the edict from an event into a rhythm. Feed it a single extra draw source (a hanging cantrip, a repeatable draw enchantment, any spell that pushes you past one card in a turn) and the sacrifice fires on your terms, every turn, without ever committing a card in hand to it. The 3/5 flying body is the quiet part that keeps the engine standing: it blocks the evasive threats that usually punish a control-leaning black deck and applies its own pressure while the sacrifice tax grinds down whatever's across the table. The restriction that pays for the repeatability is precision: it names one target opponent and strips only nontoken creatures, so a go-wide token strategy shrugs it off while a deck leaning on a single premium threat watches that threat get taxed away, timed to whichever turn your draws already overflow. The interesting axis is not the edict but its mooring point: the draw step's surplus, a place this effect has rarely been anchored.