Champion of Rhonas
The cheat lives in the attack step, and it asks for a price most cost-reduction effects don't. Reanimator and natural-order shells already skip mana costs by their nature; what this body does differently is route the cheat through combat, trading a turn of relevance in the red zone for a creature dropped straight from hand. Declare the attack, exert, and the creature lands; in exchange, your 3/3 stays tapped through the next untap step, so it can neither block nor swing again. That tension is the engine. You are not looping the trigger; you are spending one attack and one turn of board presence to skip a creature's cost entirely, which means the payoff has to be something too expensive or too unwieldy to want to cast honestly. The wording matters: the clause reads off your hand, not your graveyard, so it rewards loading up on overcosted threats rather than a self-mill plan, and it sits adjacent to the green tradition of cheating creatures into play by other means. Because nothing is ever cast, the creature put down dodges any counterspell aimed at it on the stack. Attack-triggered cheats like this all demand you commit to combat before you collect, but where many settle for tokens or temporary copies, this one puts the whole permanent down and keeps it.
