Profane Transfusion

The older life-swap tradition (Soul Conduit, Magus of the Mirror, and their kin) trades totals and stops there: a symmetrical exchange that is only ever a wash or a gamble on who was ahead. This design refuses to let the swap be neutral. Exchanging life totals is the same math whether you are the archon at 40 or the wretch at 3, and the token settles the account by measuring exactly how much daylight there was between you. Swap your low total against an opponent's high one and you steal the surplus outright; the more lopsided the theft, the bigger the Horror that lands beside you. The scaling is the whole point, and it cuts both ways: in a mirror where both players sit at the same total, the difference is zero, so the swap does nothing and you get nothing. The payoff is pointed, by construction, at whoever has been gaining the most life. The nastier line ignores your own total entirely: give one opponent a total of one or two, then convert the gap between them and a third player into a body that dwarfs the board. It is a symmetrical spell written to be played asymmetrically, and the size of the token is the receipt.