Army of the Damned

Thirteen bodies in one card, then thirteen more from the graveyard: the number is doing deliberate work here. A token spell that simply read "make an army" could land anywhere, but this one commits to a fixed, lopsided count that signals its intent before you read a word of it. The catch that prices all that board presence is the entry tax: the tokens arrive tapped, so the army cannot block on the turn that follows, and it cannot swing until your next turn either. You spend a full rotation completely exposed, deploying a swarm that does nothing on the way in. At eight mana, the turn you cast it is rarely the turn it matters; this is a spell that buys a clock, not a stabilizer. Flashback is what tilts the rate from indulgent into backbreaking: the second casting costs two more generic than the first, but it asks nothing of you except graveyard space and patience, and a deck willing to wait gets twenty-six 2/2 Zombies across two castings from a single card slot. That patience is the whole bargain. This is a top-end black finisher built for games long enough to deploy a number this absurd twice, and the tapped clause is the only thing keeping a card that makes twenty-six attackers from a single slot honest: it forces you to survive the turn after, not just the turn you cast it.