Chandra's Phoenix

A burn deck's recurring threat, built so a hand low on gas can refill from the graveyard whenever the burn is pointed the right way. The recursion trigger is the whole engine: any time a red instant, sorcery, or red planeswalker deals damage to an opponent's face, this returns from the graveyard to your hand, so a deck already firing off cheap direct damage gets a flier that keeps coming back. The clause is deliberately narrow in ways that matter: the damage has to land on an opponent, not a creature, so burn spent killing blockers does nothing for it; it has to come from a red source, so off-color removal won't trigger it; and it returns to hand rather than the battlefield, meaning you re-pay three mana each time it dies. That last restriction is what keeps it from looping into oblivion. The body underneath is plain, a 2/2 flier, but the haste is the point: returned to hand mid-turn after a burn spell connects, it can attack the moment it's recast, turning a topped-off hand and a flurry of damage into repeated evasive swings. It belongs to a small lineage of phoenixes that demand a specific deck behavior to recur, asking you to commit to a critical mass of face-aimed burn rather than slotting into any red deck. Where that critical mass exists, it stops being a creature you cast and becomes a resource you keep respending.