These signets are Secret Lair ones, illustrated by Dan Frazier
Depending on context, these cards may be called prison pieces, hate cards/hatebears, sideboard cards, or, in some circles, stax cards after the ancient Smokestack-based deck which popularized not letting the other person play as a strategic archetype
I like to play with cards like these
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact
If you've constructed a deck to contain a sizable number of Spirits, this allows you to immediately swing a game in your favor with cards that could return each Spirit in your graveyard to the battlefield like Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding, or Twilight's Whisper