Ziatora, the Incinerator
What separates this from the usual sacrifice payoff is that it converts a creature's death into two currencies at once: direct damage scaled to the sacrificed body's power, and a burst of three Treasure that funds the next play. Most aristocrat engines pick a lane, draining incrementally or grinding value; this one turns the end step into a repeatable ritual where the fuel you feed it comes back as ramp. The timing is the constraint that keeps it from spiraling: the trigger lives on your end step, so it is a once-per-turn window rather than an instant-speed damage cannon, and it costs another creature every time, meaning the deck around it has to keep the fodder flowing. The scaling clause is where the ambition lives. Sacrifice a small utility body and you get a Shock plus three Treasure; sacrifice something enormous, or a creature buffed for the occasion, and the same trigger becomes a lethal bolt to a face while still refilling your mana. That Treasure yield is what makes the whole loop self-perpetuating: three artifacts per turn can reanimate, ramp into, or simply recast the very creatures being fed to it. As the head of a Jund-colored family of demon dragons, this is the one built around throughput rather than pure aggression, a value furnace that asks you to treat your own board as ammunition and rewards you for having plenty of it.
