Nothic

A death-trigger that pays out on a die roll, which turns a beater into a bet. The floor is a Phyrexian Rager stapled to a bigger body: one card, one life, guaranteed even on the low band. The ceiling is a natural 20 that dumps seven cards into your hand at the cost of seven life, an Ambition's Cost swing that arrives for free the moment the creature trades. Most of the time you land in the middle band and draw two, which is why the card reads as a solid card-advantage engine that happens to have a jackpot bolted on. The design leans into the d20 mechanic's core appeal: even the worst outcome is still a positive, so the roll is never a gamble on whether you profit, only on how much. That reframes how you sequence the body. You want it to die, and you want to control when, so pairing it with a sacrifice outlet converts the death trigger from a combat afterthought into a resource you fire on your terms. The life loss scales with the reward, which keeps the payout honest without ever making the roll feel bad: seven cards is a windfall you might not survive if you were already low, and that tension is doing the balancing work here.