Undead Augur

The engine that turns a Zombie deck's expendability into a resource. Zombie tribal has always trafficked in fodder: tokens made to be sacrificed, chaff that trades in combat, bodies fed to a payoff. What was missing was the payoff that fired on every one of those deaths at once. Here it is, and the design is deliberately doubled: the trigger reads on itself as well as the rest of the board, so it converts even its own demise into a card, which means a removal spell aimed at it still hands you a card on the way out. The life loss is the meter that keeps the draw from being free; in a swarm deck cashing in three or four Zombies a turn, the card advantage climbs faster than the clock on your own life total does, which is exactly the tension the design wants you to manage. It sits in a line of black card-draw engines that charge life for cards (Phyrexian Arena, Dark Confidant, the whole Greed lineage), but where those tax you on a schedule you cannot control, this one pays out only when your creatures die, so the throttle is yours. Build wide and sacrifice fast and it becomes a draw-two or draw-three every turn cycle; leave it as a lone body and it is a fragile 2/2 that draws one card when it finally trades. The deck decides which.