Feldon of the Third Path

Reanimation that refuses to commit. Where black's graveyard recursion returns the creature itself, permanently and at full cost, this offers something narrower and more repeatable: a hasty copy that lasts a single turn, built fresh each cycle for three mana and a tap. The sacrifice clause does more than balance the rate; it reframes what you reanimate for. A permanent reanimation spell wants the biggest body it can afford; this wants creatures whose value is front-loaded into the moment they arrive, the enters-the-battlefield triggers and the attack steps that resolve before the copy is gone. It turns a graveyard full of dead bodies into a recurring source of one-shot effects rather than a board you rebuild once. The artifact rider is a quiet but real wrinkle, opening the copies to a layer of synergy the original creatures never had. Red rarely gets to interact with its own graveyard this way, and the flavor earns it: Feldon, the artificer mourning a lost love, rebuilding her again and again out of the only material he understands, knowing each version fades by nightfall. The mechanic and the story are the same gesture. This is a value engine whose entire identity is impermanence, and the deckbuilding question it asks is not "what is my best creature" but "what is worth doing once, every single turn."