Akoum Firebird

Phoenixes have always treated the graveyard as a waiting room rather than a final resting place, and the recursion clause here ties that return to the single most reliable trigger a land-heavy deck produces: dropping a land onto the battlefield. The cost is steep, six mana in a lump with two colored pips, and it must be paid in full when the trigger resolves, not whittled down across multiple landfalls. The compulsion to attack each combat is the leash on that resilience: every resurrection commits a flier to the red zone whether the board wants one there or not, so a careless return can walk into a waiting blocker or trade away the creature you just spent six mana to reclaim. Haste is what makes each return count, and it works on the reanimation, not just the hardcast. A creature that reenters the battlefield has summoning sickness like any other permanent; haste is the reason this one can swing the turn it comes back rather than sitting inert until the following turn. So the effect is a threat that rewards flooding the table with lands rather than merely running a high count, since each new land, not each card in hand, becomes the resource that brings it back and the timing that lets it attack immediately. The friction is deliberate: the recursion is expensive enough and the attack clause aggressive enough that the card asks you to be winning the ground war before you start reanimating fliers into it.