Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the Endless

The two faces of this card actively resist sharing a deck, which is what makes the design worth reading twice. Garland is a two-mana 3/2 built for spellslinger shells: every noncreature spell you cast surveils 1, smoothing your draws and stocking the graveyard while a low-creature, high-instant-and-sorcery build hums along. But the yard he fills is partly his own runway back, because the return clause wants him dead first. Let the Knight die, pay at sorcery speed (seven mana across two black and two red pips), and the same activated ability on the graveyard-side Garland raises him as Chaos, a flying beater. The surveil trigger and the recursion are two halves of the same body: the spells you cast to advance the game are also digging to hit the mana and the moment where flipping him back on becomes worth it. That is the tug the design keeps taut. The front wants to stay in play attacking and pinging surveils; the back only exists if you sacrifice that pressure, bury him, and then assemble the four colored pips to fire the return. And Chaos does not stay dead cheaply. When it dies it goes to the bottom of its owner's library, which reads closer to a soft banish than a reset: the card stays in your deck rather than being exiled, but running the sequence again means grinding through the entire library to find it. That bottom-of-library clause is the tax the recursion pays for existing.