Bereaved Survivor // Dauntless Avenger
Aristocrats decks have always wanted their fodder to matter twice: once when it enters, once when it dies. This card is built to reward the second half of that loop directly. The front is a fragile 2/1 that does nothing on offense until something else you control dies, at which point the trigger flips it to a body that turns your graveyard into repeatable pressure. That transform condition is the whole hinge: it costs no mana and demands only a death you were probably arranging anyway, which means the card slots into a sacrifice engine without asking for its own dedicated support.
The back half is where the design gets pointed. Restricting the reanimation to creatures of mana value two or less keeps it from becoming a generic recursion outlet: it wants a battlefield of cheap dorks, sacrifice-fuel one-drops, and death-trigger creatures, exactly the pieces that made the front side flip in the first place. Every attack recurs one of them tapped and attacking, chaining bodies back into combat while feeding the next sacrifice. It is a self-sustaining shape that reads as two modest creatures on paper but functions as an aristocrats value loop stapled onto a clock. The friction is that it needs to survive one death to get going and needs cheap graveyard targets to keep going; give it both and it grinds a low-to-the-ground attrition deck into something that refuses to run out of threats.
