Clay Revenant

The colorless artifact body that pays its rent in black mana: a recurring one-drop chump blocker built for grind, not tempo. Entering tapped is the tax that stops it from doubling as a free early wall, and it steers the card away from aggression toward attrition, where a body that keeps coming back matters more than a body that shows up on curve. The reanimation is deliberately self-contained: the golem returns itself from the graveyard to hand for , so it needs no sacrifice outlet, no external recursion, no supporting engine to loop. That makes it a fodder machine in any deck that turns creature deaths into value, feeding sacrifice triggers, blocking to trade, then buying itself back for another lap. As an artifact it also reads as any-color food for effects that want a cheap permanent to consume, while the black activation quietly commits it to a graveyard-friendly shell. It is not a card that wins games; it is a card that refuses to run out, and the whole design is pitched at the player who would rather grind an opponent to zero cards than race them to zero life.