Garza's Assassin

The triple-black pip on a 2/2 is the first signal that this body was never the point: it asks you to commit hard to mono-black, and what you get is a removal spell stapled to a creature that refuses to die for good. Sacrifice it and a nonblack creature is gone; then recover lets you buy it back from the graveyard for half your life, rounded up, every time another creature hits your yard from the battlefield. That recurrence loop is the whole tension. The life payment scales with how reckless you've been, so a low life total makes the return nearly free while a high one makes it a real cost, and the trigger condition rewards a board that's already churning through bodies. Pair it with sacrifice fodder and you have a reusable assassination on a stick, paying in life rather than mana. The nonblack restriction is the obvious balancing clause, but the more interesting one is the exile-or-return choice baked into recover: decline the payment and the card is gone for good, so every loop is a deliberate decision about whether your life total can afford another pass. It reads as a black aristocrats engine before that word existed in the design vocabulary, trading the resource black is most willing to spend for repeated removal that never empties your hand.