Pontiff of Blight

Extort works one creature at a time, and that single-creature ceiling is exactly what this card removes. Whenever you cast a spell, the keyword lets you pay a hybrid mana to drain each opponent for one; on its own it is incremental, a slow tax on the table that adds up over a game. The 2/7 body here is not the point. The point is the second ability, which sprays the keyword across your entire board, so a five-creature line means a single spell now offers five separate extort triggers, each payable in sequence and each draining every opponent. The drain scales with opponents, not just with spells, which is why the card's math gets lopsided fast in a multiplayer pod: one cantrip with a wide board and a stack of white-or-black mana becomes a double-digit life swing in one direction and the same swing back the other way. The defensive seven toughness is the quiet enabler, letting the creature sit through most early aggression while the engine you have built around it does the actual work. It is a payoff that asks for two things at once: a critical mass of bodies to multiply the triggers, and enough open mana to feed them. Build toward both and the keyword stops being a trickle and becomes a faucet.