Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

A modal double-faced legend whose two names are not two shades of one idea but two answers to two different questions. As Valentin, the ability rewrites the death of every nontoken creature an opponent controls (their tokens still die normally) into an exile-and-graft, letting you skim a Pest off their attrition for two mana each time. That is a resource-denial engine sitting on a menacing, life-linked 1/1, playing as a slow strangle rather than a clock: the opponent's board erodes into your Pests, each of which pays a point of life back on its way out. Lisette inverts the posture entirely. Every life-gain trigger becomes a mana-fed team pump, converting incidental lifegain into +1/+1 counters and trample across your creatures, herself included, so a body with no combat text of its own still contributes to the beatdown by growing and reaching alongside the rest. Since Valentin and Lisette carry different names, the legend rule never fires between them: a player running multiple copies can have both faces working at once, the attrition half feeding lifegain into the pump half. But on a single card the choice lives in your hand, and the body carries its plan whichever way you cast it. Valentin's menace and lifelink make him a threat while he strangles the opposing board; Lisette's triggered pump keeps a wide team growing and, when the mana is there, trampling through to the throat.