Skullmulcher

Devour built a clean two-sided trade into a single keyword: feed the elemental as it enters and it grows, but every sacrificed body it eats is one you no longer control. Most devour creatures cashed that in for nothing but a fatter beater, which made the sacrifice feel like a tax. The trick here is the draw trigger, which converts the sacrifice into a refill: each creature devoured replaces itself with a card. That recasts what looks like a swarm payoff into something closer to a value engine. The 3/3 body and five-mana price are almost beside the point; the card wants to enter after you have a board of expendable creatures (tokens are the obvious feedstock) and pay them in for cards while keeping a counter-loaded threat as a bonus. The math is deliberately fair: devour 1 means one counter and one card per creature, so there is no exponential blowout, just a tidy one-for-one conversion of width into cards. The wrinkle worth noting is how the two halves are wired. Devour is a replacement effect that modifies how the creature arrives on the battlefield, so the sacrifice and the counters are locked in the instant it enters; only the card draw is an actual enters trigger. Either way, there is no drip-feeding bodies over several turns or holding the sacrifice for later. You commit your board the moment it lands, or not at all.