Geralf's Masterpiece

The body wants you to spend cards as fast as you draw them, and the recursion clause is the engine that makes that demand pay. A 7/7 flier that shrinks by one in both directions for every card you hold is a perfect inversion of the usual blue posture: card advantage, the resource blue hoards above all others, is here a liability that whittles the creature down. Empty your grip and you have a 7/7 evasive threat; sit on a fistful of counterspells and removal and it might not survive arriving. Discarding three cards to bring it back tapped is both the cost (it drains your hand to make the body big) and the reason the body matters at all: it converts a hellbent state, the moment when most blue decks have run out of gas, into a recurring kill clock that no single removal spell can answer for long. This is blue built like a reanimator's reusable beater rather than a control finisher, asking you to burn your library as fuel and fight from the bottom of your resources. The tension it resolves is real: how do you give blue a cheap, hard-to-kill flier without handing the most card-rich color a free win? You make the card hostile to its own pilot's instincts, and reward the player willing to fight from empty.