Tobias, Doomed Conqueror

The death trigger reads like a paradox for a white-blue commander: an aristocrats payoff in the two colors that historically want nothing to do with sacrifice. The trick is that Tobias doesn't count what dies while it's out; it counts everything nontoken that died this turn, then converts that tally into Zombies the moment it dies itself. That reframes the sequencing entirely. You want a wide board to trade away first, then let the commander eat a removal spell or a block, cashing the whole graveyard's worth of casualties into a second army. Flash is the piece that makes the timing controllable: you can hold it up as a combat blocker, let it die on your terms, and rebuild at instant speed rather than committing it to a sorcery-speed swing. The Zombies arriving in black is the flavor tell (a doomed conqueror raising the fallen under his banner), and it quietly hands a UW deck a body count it isn't supposed to have access to. Where Azorius normally leans on flicker and evasion to grind value, this asks for the opposite: a board built to be spent, with the payoff deferred until the exchange is already complete.