Vindictive Lich

The 4/1 body is a red herring; this card's whole purpose is to die, and the multiplayer table is built into the trigger itself. The modal death effect demands that each chosen mode hit a different player, which turns a single creature's death into a distributed political event: one opponent loses a creature, another sheds two cards, a third drops five life. Nobody gets to absorb the whole punishment, and that division is the point. It converts the act of killing your creature into a calculus problem for the table, because whoever swings into it or sweeps it must accept that the payoff scatters across the pod rather than landing on the one player who triggered it. The instant-speed flexibility of the dies trigger means a sacrifice outlet lets you fire it on your terms: at end of turn, in response to removal, or to break a board stall by taxing three players at once. The 4/1 is the lever that makes the trigger easy to reach: high enough power to demand a block or a removal spell, low enough toughness that almost anything springs the trap. As a piece of design it belongs to a small family of creatures that punish interaction across an entire pod rather than a single hand-to-hand exchange, and the "different player" clause is what stops it from simply executing the player to its left, forcing the pain to spread instead of concentrating.