Cursecloth Wrappings

Embalm was originally a per-card graveyard mechanic: a keyword printed on individual creatures that let you exile them from the yard to make a white Zombie token copy. This turns that one-off ability into a repeatable engine by granting it. The tap ability hands embalm to any creature card in your graveyard, with the cost pegged to that card's own mana cost, so the artifact does not care what the creature was originally: it retrofits the keyword onto anything that dies. Every token it produces arrives as a white Zombie, which is the elegant part, because the anthem effect on the same card is waiting for exactly those tokens. One half of the card manufactures Zombies; the other half pumps them. The friction is real, though: embalm can only be activated at sorcery speed, the tap gates you to one grant per turn cycle, and you still owe the full embalm cost to actually make the token, so this is a grinding value piece rather than a burst engine. It sits in a specific niche of black artifacts that reward a graveyard stocked with expensive-enough creatures to be worth reanimating in token form, while quietly rewiring the reanimation math: instead of returning a creature to play, you get a permanent, color-shifted, mana-cost-free copy that leaves the original in exile.