Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
Most token payoffs care about creatures arriving; this one reads its army on the way out. The first trigger fires when a token you control leaves the battlefield, so every sacrificed, exiled, or bounced token that would otherwise be pure loss instead becomes permanent growth. That inverts the usual math of a go-wide board: fragility is the input, not the tax. Feed it through aristocrat outlets and the counters pile on while the graveyard fills. The two abilities close a loop, though a lopsided one. Nadier fattens off departing tokens, and when Nadier itself leaves, it replaces its accumulated power with a fresh batch of green Elf Warriors, which are themselves tokens whose eventual deaths feed the next copy. The timing wrinkle is worth respecting: a symmetrical board wipe that kills Nadier alongside the rest of your tokens gives it no chance to bank those counters first, so the death trigger only pays out its power from before the sweep. To cash in the growth, Nadier has to survive the departures it profits from, or leave on its own terms. At six mana for a modest 3/3, this was never built to helm a deck outright; Partner is the structural admission that it works best as the engine half of a pairing, slotting behind a token-generator or a sacrifice theme and doing its accounting only while it is on the battlefield, never from the command zone.
