Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

The genius here is the double conversion: opponents' life loss into Clues, then Clues into bodies. The deathtouch on her 2/3 frame is what makes the attrition math work: an opponent who blocks loses a creature, and one who declines to block takes the damage the end-step trigger is watching for. That trigger reads any opponent who lost life this turn, which rewards the incidental pings and swings an Orzhov deck already wants to make. But the real engine is what happens after the Clues exist. Most Investigate payoffs treat Clues as a slow card-draw tax; this reframes them as sacrifice fuel, and the governor is the "only once each turn" clause on the Spirit trigger. That single restriction is what keeps the token stream from spiraling: crack a dozen Clues in one turn and you still get exactly one flier, so the design pushes you to space sacrifices across turns and to lean on outlets that want repeatable fodder anyway. The lineage is deliberate. Teysa Karlov doubled death triggers; Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts sat back as a lifelinking wall. This version synthesizes the character's aristocrats-and-investigation instincts into a low-cost engine that manufactures its own fodder, feeds it back into flying Spirits, and closes the loop between the Clue subtheme and the token-death subtheme that both live in Orzhov. The finished card is less a single effect than a small factory with a throttle bolted on.