Vraska's Conquistador

The conditional drain stapled to this body is what Wizards reserves for creatures meant to validate one specific planeswalker: it does nothing unless you control a Vraska, and pays you off twice over (their life total down, yours up) the moment you do. That gating is the entire point. Strip the condition away and a 2/1 for two draining two per combat would be absurdly cheap, which is precisely why the payoff is walled behind a deckbuilding tax that only one narrow shell ever bothers to pay. What sharpens the trigger past a plain "as long as you control" clause is that it fires on attacks or blocks, not attacks alone, so the drain keeps ticking on defense while you assemble the rest of the board. It belongs to a small class of creatures from this era built to reward sticking a named planeswalker, the same logic that once had cards caring whether you controlled a Garruk or a Sorin. The construction is a wager: the body is priced for a deck that already wants Vraska on the battlefield, and the cost of running it is that you must be that deck. Anywhere else, it is a fragile two-drop bolted to a line of dead rules text.