Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent

A drain payoff built around a creature that would rather not be on the battlefield at all. The trigger fires on attacking alone, then bounces its own body back to hand as the cost of the two-life swing, which turns a 2/2 into a recurring, self-replaying tax: recast for two mana, swing solo, drain, repeat. The design leans into its own timidity as the mechanic, the return-to-hand clause reading less like a drawback than the engine's reset button. Because the drain is conditioned on the "attacks alone" clause, it rewards a board deliberately kept empty of other attackers rather than a wide one, an unusual instruction for a black aggro-drain piece and the thing that gives it identity beyond the numbers. There is a real friction to manage: bouncing removes the body from combat before damage resolves, so the two-power hit never actually connects, and the payoff is entirely the life-swing, not the beatdown. That makes it a value trickle rather than a clock, and the recast cost is what keeps the trickle from being free. It sits in the lineage of low-cost black creatures whose whole job is to convert repeated recasting into incremental life pressure, closer in spirit to a drain engine than to a threat.