Eerie Soultender

The self-milling body that pays for its own graveyard recursion, then removes itself from the equation. Filling your yard three cards deep on entry is only half the transaction; the payoff is the delayed engine baked into the second ability, which returns a creature from the graveyard to hand and exiles this card in the process. That exile clause is the accountant here: the recursion is strictly one-shot, so the card cannot loop with a sacrifice outlet or a flicker effect the way a returning body might. It fills the yard, then once it lands there itself, cashes out once. The 3/1 body is deliberately fragile, a rate that reads as a value creature rather than a blocker, which nudges it toward decks that want it in the graveyard as much as on the battlefield: aristocrat shells, reanimator setups, anything that treats the graveyard as a resource pool rather than a discard pile. The design belongs to a long line of black creatures that turn milling from a loss condition into fuel, but this one folds the enabler and the payoff into a single card, spread across two turns and two zones. You get the fuel now and the flexibility later, priced so that the buyback is a mid-game investment rather than a cheap trick.