Gigapede

Six power for five mana on a body that can't be touched by removal, and a recursion clause that returns it from the graveyard each upkeep for the price of a discard: on paper this reads like a green beater that never stops coming. The one toughness is the punchline that undercuts the whole premise. Shroud locks out targeted spells and abilities, but a 6/1 dies to any blocker, any sweeper, any pinger working off a non-targeted effect, and to a single point of incidental damage. You buy the recursion precisely because the body is fragile enough to keep dying. So the persistence reads as resilience and plays as a treadmill: it comes back reliably, swings once or twice, and folds to the first chump block or burst of board damage. The graveyard-return is also slow, ticking only on your upkeep and taxing a card each cycle, so the engine drains your hand to refill a threat the opponent answers for free in combat. It is a genuinely odd piece of design: top-heavy power married to glass toughness, with self-recursion stapled on to patch a survivability problem the stat line itself manufactures. Memorable for the silhouette and the loop more than for any stretch of play it ever defined.