Alain, Sculptor of Bone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return
a creature card from your graveyard to your
hand. You lose life equal to that card's
converted mana cost.
At the beginning of you end step, you gain life
equal to the number of creatures that were put
into a graveyard this turn.
"Progress is not the measure of life or death, but rather
the difference between the two."