Ravenous Chupacabra

Nekrataal with the rough edges sanded off. The old creature-with-removal template demanded a clause: black creature, nonblack target, nonartifact. This one drops every restriction. Any creature an opponent controls dies, and the body that arrives to collect rent is a clean 2/2 that trades into nothing and blocks little, which is exactly the point. The four-mana cost buys unconditional destruction attached to a deliberately negligible body: you are paying for the trigger, not the creature, so the card reads as instant-value the moment it resolves rather than as a threat you have to protect. The lineage matters because it explains the popularity. Two-for-one removal on a stick had historically come gated, but destruction with no caveats turned this into a default inclusion for any midrange black deck that could blink, reanimate, or bounce it. Every recursion engine that touches a creature this cheap to cast turns the kill clause into a renewable resource, and the card asks nothing in return: no death trigger to enable, no spectacle cost, no color requirement on the target. It is the version of the effect that designers had been circling for years, finally printed without an apology attached.