Aphetto Vulture

The recursion piece in a black Zombie shell that never draws a card, only stacks one. The death trigger does not return its target to hand or to the battlefield; it sets a Zombie from your graveyard as your next draw, banking a guaranteed redraw rather than an immediate body. The choice of zone is the entire point. A chump block or a sacrifice converts directly into your best Zombie cued up for next turn, and in a deck running cyclers or card filtering that becomes a clean way to rebuild after a sweeper. Run several copies and a board wipe trades down rather than up, since each one that dies queues another threat in the draw step to come. The price is tempo: a 3/2 flier for six mana is a body that wants to die to do its real work, and the trigger only ever advances you a single card per death. This is a grindy attrition tool, the sort of value creature you reach for when guaranteeing tomorrow's draw matters more than committing a threat that has to survive. The flying serves the math more than the clock: it forces a favorable block, the opponent kills it, you bank the Zombie, and the exchange tilts your way over enough turns.