Murderous Rider // Swift End

Black has always had premium unconditional removal: point at a creature or planeswalker, watch it die, no hoops. The Adventure frame here bolts a second life onto that answer. Cast the kill spell, pay two life for the privilege, and the card is not spent but banked in exile, ready to redeploy later as a 2/3 lifelink body that repays the life it cost and then some. One slot covers both sides of the tension midrange lives inside: the interaction you want early, the threat you want late. What keeps the package from being pure upside is the clause governing the body's death: it tucks to the bottom of its owner's library rather than to a graveyard. That single line is the balancing act. Bottoming forecloses the reanimation, recursion, and sacrifice-fodder loops a black three-drop of this shape would otherwise invite; in most games it amounts to removing the card from play rather than recycling it. There is no repeatable value engine, no aristocrats abuse, no second lap: what the body survives, it survives once. The design trades ceiling for consistency. No individual mode is broken, and the two life on the removal half is a real cost against aggressive mirrors. Folding a two-for-one's worth of answer and threat this cleanly into a single card is exactly what makes it so hard to leave on the bench.