Take advantage of high toughness creatures like the plant option on Skinshifter, the five toughness on Nyx-Fleece Ram, and Runic Armasaur that were designed as defensive options and turn them into aggressive beaters
Stuff like Snuff Out or Dismember are already heavily played cards, but here, you get to draw a card from them because you lost 4 life, and you also get to drain your opponents for 2 life, offsetting your life loss
931 Inclusions, 0% of 999,392 Decks) Four mana for +1/+1 counters we could already put on a creature (and without the flying that goes with it), the numbers for Leela, Sevateem WarriorLeela, Sevateem Warrior are going to stay low
That three extra mana you didnt have to actually pay can now be spent on a threat like Teferi or Phlage, double-spelling way ahead of what would normally be possible with basically no downside
As with Sacrifice, Burnt Offering is great with cards that have high mana values that you can play on the cheap, such as those with Affinity or those that cost substantially less if you fulfill a certain condition, like Emrakul, the Promised End, Avatar of Fury, or Avatar of Woe
