Cadaver Imp

Black has always paid for graveyard recursion in some currency, and this version bills the body instead of the spell. Where Gravedigger handed you the same effect on a 2/2 ground-pounder, this one drops to a 1/1 and buys evasion with the difference: a flier that returns a dead creature to hand on arrival, stapling the recursion to a clock you can actually connect with. The body is fragile by design, because the value is front-loaded into the enter trigger and the flying is what justifies keeping the imp on the table afterward. That makes it a natural blink and reanimation target itself: it wants to die and return, looping a graveyard's worth of creatures one card at a time. The recursion is optional ("you may"), so an empty yard or a board with nothing worth raising leaves you an evasive 1/1 with a trigger that does nothing, which is the floor the design accepts in exchange for the payoff when the graveyard is full. It belongs to the long line of black role-players whose whole pitch is turning a creature's death into a renewable resource: not a card that wins on its own, but the connective tissue that keeps an attrition deck refueling. The flying is the wrinkle that separates it from the ground-bound recursion bodies that came before, and the reason it stays relevant past the turn it lands.