Runed Servitor

Symmetry on paper rarely survives contact with practice, and a death-triggered group draw is the cleanest illustration of the gap. The 2/2 body is plain enough to slot into any deck (the colorless cost asks nothing of your manabase), but the body is not the point: the whole design lives in the trigger. When it dies, each player draws, which reads as a wash until you notice who controls the death. You choose when to chump-block, when to feed it to removal, when to throw it to a sacrifice outlet; the refund arrives precisely when a fresh card is worth more to you than to your opponent. The discipline is built into that same clause. Against an empty-handed opponent topdecking for an out, handing them a card is a genuine cost, so the trigger quietly punishes a careless crack. Set it beside the older static group-draw engines like Howling Mine, and the difference is structural: those tax you every upkeep, run for both sides indefinitely, and never let you pick the moment. This one fires once, on your timing, and stops. That single-shot, self-scheduled shape is why it behaves like neither a perpetual draw engine nor a simple cantrip-on-a-stick. The construct draws its cards by dying, and the only question it ever poses is whether the moment of death favors you more than it favors them.