Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch and lifelink on the same body turns a 1/1 into a combat governor: anything that swings into it dies, and every point it deals in combat feeds your life total back. That pairing had appeared before on splashier bodies (Vampire Nighthawk carried both alongside flying at a heavier price), but stripping the package down to the barest black creature is a specific design choice. The body is deliberately negligible; the friction it creates is not. As a blocker it taxes the attacker's math, since trading a real creature into a one-mana wall is at best an even exchange bought at a mana loss, so an aggressor's cleaner option is often to route around it entirely. On offense it becomes a genuine problem the moment you attach evasion or lean on the combat threat, because deathtouch means any point of blocking damage against it is a gamble the opponent loses, while lifelink scales directly with any pump you stack on top. The reason it reads as unassuming and plays as annoying is that both keywords amplify whatever else you pair with them: first strike makes it a one-sided trade, ping effects turn it into repeatable removal, and sacrifice payoffs bank the lifegain before it dies. It is the cheapest possible frame for the deathtouch-lifelink interaction, and the low ceiling on the raw stats is exactly what lets it slot into strategies where the keywords, not the creature, are the point.