Starscape Cleric

Lifegain has always been the softest payoff color black has to sell: a resource that stalls the game rather than winning it, forgiven as incidental upside on a lifelink body. This flips the ledger. Every time you gain life, each opponent loses one, no matter how much you gained or how you gained it, so a deck full of small, unglamorous lifelink triggers suddenly reads as a burn engine. The clock matters more than the size of the gain, which pushes the build toward frequency: many small lifelink attackers over one big heal. The "can't block" clause is the tax that buys the two-power flier: this is an evasive body that only ever attacks and never trades, so the drain is meant to fire while you race, not while you stabilize. Offspring is what makes that drain matter twice, since a token copy carries the same "whenever you gain life" clause. Spend the extra and every lifegain event drains for two instead of one, stacking the payoff without spending another card. That is the real design logic here: not the flier, not the asymmetric drain in isolation, but a redundancy button welded onto a trigger that only ever points at your opponents. A single successful cast can double the engine's throughput. It rewards a build that treats life total as ammunition rather than a buffer, and asks nothing of your graveyard, your board, or your combat step beyond keeping the drain online.