2024-01-12 The amount of life you gain from extort is based on the total amount of life lost, not necessarily the number of opponents you have
So, if you know of a card that the person you're buying for really likes (from an art standpoint or otherwise) consider buying them a print of it
Lots of fun deck rares are incredibly cheap compared to a playable rare, which generally has a maximum price of $10 USD (not counting ultra-rares and cards no longer in print)
Creatures printed as recently as this year can have the Mercenary type, such as Cloud, Planet's Champion and, fittingly, Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
Then it looks like this: Now you have a new creature in play, named Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage