Fencer Clique

For one blue mana, this Faerie tucks itself onto the top of your library, and that single line of text is what makes a fragile 3/2 flier so frustrating to kill. Hold up the mana, and a removal spell pointed at it simply fizzles: with its only target gone from the battlefield, the spell never resolves and is removed from the stack. The recursion is not card advantage, though. Replaying the body costs you a draw step every time, so each rescue trades a card off the top of your deck for a saved flier, and leaning on the ability stalls your draws entirely. That self-imposed clock is the cost the opponent never gets to interact with, and it is what keeps a recurring evasive threat in check. The tempo cost also disciplines combat sequencing. Because damage no longer uses the stack, you cannot attack, wait for a block, and tuck the creature after damage would be dealt; pull it from combat and it deals nothing, so the blocker just survives. The honest play is to swing for the evasive three, let damage resolve, and only then decide whether to hold the body up or rescue it from removal next turn. It belongs to a small family of creatures that protect themselves by hiding in the deck rather than the graveyard, a space where exile removal and graveyard hate both whiff; the price is always paid in tempo and draw steps, never in a window the opponent can exploit.