Bucky Barnes, Eager Ally
Vigilance usually reads as a license to attack without lowering your guard, but here it points the other way: this is a blocker that wants to trade, and the entire payoff sits on the far side of its death. Nothing happens while it lives. It taps for nothing, triggers nothing, does its work only when it reaches the graveyard, at which point it digs four deep for an Equipment, Hero, or Soldier to replace itself. That inverts the usual two-drop transaction. You are not buying a body plus a card up front; you are running combat fodder that converts its own destruction into targeted selection. The narrow reveal keeps the dig from being generic smoothing: you are threading toward a specific piece of gear or a tribal payoff, and a whiff bottoms all four in random order rather than binning them for later value. That randomization carries weight, because it forecloses a reliable second look; each death is a single query, not a repeatable filter, and the creature is gone once it fires. A build that wants this treats creatures as fuel: sacrifice outlets to trigger it on command, deliberate chump blocks to force the trade, and enough Equipment, Heroes, and Soldiers that the peek rarely comes up empty. Its best line runs straight through its own grave, rewarding a deck that plans for the death rather than protecting the body.
