Origin of Black Widow

The three chapters here read as a single sentence spoken over three turns, and the punctuation is graveyard math. Chapter I is an edict, but its second job is quieter: every nontoken creature an opponent sacrifices lands in a yard the Saga will bill them for later. Chapter II hands your whole team deathtouch for the turn, turning every block and every swing into a lethal trade, which in a multiplayer game manufactures the very deaths that stock those graveyards further. Then Chapter III collects, draining each opponent one life for every creature card in their yard, with no lifegain riding along, just a burst that scales with two turns of accumulated dying. So it functions less as a value engine and more as a scheduled reckoning: the edict and the deathtouch are not filler between draws, they are priming a payoff whose size the pilot has spent two chapters inflating. Because it sacrifices itself after the third lore counter, there is no board left to answer, only a clock everyone at the table can read. That visibility is the tax. Opponents know exactly when the drain arrives and can dump their graveyards, refuse the trades Chapter II invites, or simply race the counter before it lands. The reward goes to a deck already built to make creatures die, then supplies that deck a fixed date on which the accounting comes due.