Spiteful Prankster
Aristocrats decks have always wanted their death triggers to point at the opponent's face, and most payoffs make you jump through a hoop to get there: a sacrifice outlet, a persist body, a Blood Artist reading in reverse. Here the reach comes free of asymmetry. Any other creature dying, yours or theirs, pings a player or planeswalker for one, which turns board wipes, chump blocks, and your own sacrifice loops into a repeatable clock without demanding a dedicated engine around it. The Blood Artist family drains life; this one skips the lifegain half and pushes the damage straight at a target you choose, which matters when the finish line is a planeswalker's loyalty rather than an opponent's life total. The first strike is the smaller half of the design but not accidental: a 3/2 that swings safely into anything of equal size on your turn keeps the body relevant while the passive does the accumulating. What holds it in check is that it only counts other creatures dying, so its own death gives you nothing, and it deals a single point at a time, so it rewards a wide, expendable board rather than one large threat. Its ceiling is a table of small creatures trading and dying while the Prankster tallies the damage; its floor is a Devil that trades up in combat and sits idle when the graveyard stays quiet.
