Chitin Gravestalker

The printed cost of six is a fiction the card never intends to pay. Every artifact and creature in your graveyard shaves a mana off the top, which means this is a body priced against the shape of your yard rather than the state of your hand: a self-mill deck, a sacrifice engine, an aristocrats shell full of expended bodies all turn the same 5/4 into a two- or three-mana play by the midgame. The reduction only counts card types you have already spent, so the design pays you for the graveyard you built while doing other things, not for holding this card back. Cycling for is the release valve that keeps it from being dead early: draw off it in the opening turns, and it becomes one more creature card feeding the very count that discounts the next copy. That loop is the quiet cleverness here, the card participating in its own cost reduction after it leaves your hand. The 5/4 stat line is deliberately unremarkable, a fair rate you would never pay full price for; the whole point is that you rarely will. It belongs to the lineage of graveyard-as-resource payoffs where the reward is a body, not an engine, and its ceiling scales with how much your deck has already thrown away.