Wedding Invitation

Two-mana artifacts that replace themselves on entry and hold a second effect in reserve have a long design lineage, but this one packages the cantrip with an evasion enabler that flexes on tribe. Cracking it makes a single creature unblockable for the turn, and if that creature happens to be a Vampire, the same sacrifice hands it lifelink: the payoff scales with a deckbuilding commitment you make before the card ever touches the table. That conditional lifelink is the whole reason it exists at this rate. Strip the Vampire clause and it reads like a generic "draw a card, later make one thing unblockable" trinket, playable but forgettable. Point it at the right attacker and the sacrifice pushes through the last points of a stalled race while swinging the life totals, all from a card that already refunded its own draw. The friction is timing: it taps and sacrifices, so it is a one-shot committed the turn you want the swing, not a repeatable engine, and it can only ever escort one creature past the blockers. What makes the design tick is how little you pay for the option. Because it cantrips on the way in, a tribal deck runs it as a low-cost enabler that quietly upgrades into a finisher when a single attacker needs to get there, without ever costing a card to hold.