Savor

Black rarely gets to shrink a creature and bank value in the same instant, and the seam here is worth pulling on. A -2/-2 at two mana is honest combat math: it kills the smallest attackers and blockers outright, blunts a mid-sized threat into an unfavorable trade, and can be aimed at your own creature to trigger a death payoff. The Food token stapled on is what separates it from the many temporary shrink effects black has printed, like Disfigure: interaction that leaves behind a slow lifegain resource, one that also feeds the sacrifice-matters and artifact-count subthemes black keeps circling. The -2/-2 wording is the load-bearing choice: it slips past indestructible and shrugs off nothing, since it never deals damage, so it answers creatures that would soak a burn spell. But it is a shrink, not a kill: against a threat larger than two toughness it is a combat aid rather than an unconditional removal spell, and that is the price of stapling value to the effect. The Food is deliberately not free; it costs two mana and a tap to cash in, framing lifegain as something you spend later instead of a rider you get for nothing. That patience is the whole trade: you pay slightly more up front than a bare shrink would cost, and you get a token still sitting on the battlefield three turns after the -2/-2 has faded.