Patron of the Vein
The two abilities pull in the same direction, so this reads as a genuine Vampire payoff rather than a removal creature stapled to a flier. The enter trigger clears a blocker or a threat, and the death trigger converts every subsequent opposing death into team-wide growth, exiling the body so recursion never gives it back. The second ability doesn't restrict itself to combat: any opponent's creature dying anywhere, to a board wipe, a sacrifice effect, or your own removal, feeds counters onto the whole tribe. That reframes what your removal is worth once this resolves, because each kill spell now buys stats alongside tempo. The exile clause is the quiet piece of discipline here; graveyard recursion and reanimation shells that would otherwise recycle their fallen bodies get shut out, so the card doubles as attrition insurance while it grows your side. A 4/4 flier is a fine enough clock, and the design intent is aggregate: the more Vampires already assembled, the more each opposing death compounds across the board rather than landing on a single creature. It sits in the long line of tribal lords that reward density, except its growth keys not to what you play but to what your opponent loses.
