Pitiless Plunderer

The body is the tell: a 1/4 for four mana is built to sit on the table and survive, not to attack, because the death trigger only matters if you stay alive long enough to feed it. What separates this from earlier aristocrats payoffs is the currency. A creature dying under most engines gives you a card, a life drain, or a counter; here it gives you ramp that persists. The Treasure doesn't expire at end of turn the way a ritual would, so each death banks mana you can spend whenever, on whatever color you need. That turns a sacrifice loop from a value engine into a mana engine: feed a creature to a free sacrifice outlet, get a Treasure, and the math starts to bend toward repeatability. The catch is the trigger only fires on other creatures, so the Plunderer never cashes itself in, and you need a board to convert. That dependency is the cost of the rate. Where most token-makers in black give you a body, this gives you fuel, and fuel that any color can burn is worth more in a deck stitched together from sacrifice fodder and outlet. It reads as a midrange value piece and plays as the half of a combo that quietly fixes the mana while the other half does the killing.