Vermin Gorger

Blood Artist and its kin drain when creatures die anywhere on the battlefield; this Vampire takes the opposite tack, folding the sacrifice outlet and the payoff into a single tapped body. That fusion is the whole design point. Most aristocrat engines split labor across two cards: something to eat your creatures, something to punish their departure. Here both live on one 2/2, which changes the shape of the strategy. A death-trigger piece scales with the sheer volume of fodder that dies, so a single board wipe or token swarm can convert into a huge swing all at once. The tap symbol inverts that: output is bottlenecked by the clock, one sacrifice per turn cycle, no matter how deep your bench runs. That tap-gated ceiling is what reframes what the card wants. It is not a burst engine but a grind engine, converting expendable bodies into a steady two-point swing across turns rather than a single explosive payoff. The "another creature" clause simply keeps it from eating itself as its own fodder, and the tap cost forbids machine-gunning through a stalled board in one turn. Against a stall, those two-life swings accumulate into reach the opponent cannot block. It is a compact, self-contained version of a plan that usually demands a whole shell: outlet and payoff in the same slot, paying for the compression with a strict once-per-turn tempo.