Symbiotic Elf

Four mana for a 2/2 that splinters into two 1/1 Insects on death is a rate nobody pays for the bodies. The death trigger is the whole reason this Elf exists, and specifically the way it turns one dying creature into two tokens across a second creature type. That conversion is the design hook: a sacrifice outlet sees a single card that yields three pieces of fodder, an Elf for tribal counts plus two Insects for token counts, and one creature whose death powers two payoff axes at once. The split tribe matters more than the raw count, since Insect has rarely had enough members to register as a type worth caring about, and this quietly hedges one body into that column while still feeding the Elf line. The standalone stat line is unhurried because the value is back-loaded: you pay upfront for what happens after the creature is gone, not for what it does while it stands. That inverts how most green creatures price themselves, where the body is the product and the leftover is incidental. Here the body is the wrapper and the death event is the product, so the card sits as filler until a deck exists that wants the dying more than the attacking.