God-Eternal Oketra

The defining trait of the God cycle is its return-from-death-or-exile clause, engineered here to protect an engine rather than simply outlast removal. The trigger is narrow by design: it fires only when the card dies or is exiled from the battlefield, so an opponent who bounces it to hand sidesteps the clause entirely. And the return is optional; you choose whether to place it third from the top of your library, a precise position rather than a shuffle, which matters when you would rather draw something else than reload the same 3/6. The real payoff sits on the other line. Every creature spell you cast, not every creature that resolves, mints a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior with vigilance. That distinction is the whole engine. The token arrives on cast, so it survives the countermagic that would have stopped the creature it rode in on, and any build that dumps cheap bodies fast or squeezes extra creature spells into a turn compounds the payout. A double striker is a serviceable clock, but the card plays closer to a tax-on-lethal-answers stapled to an army-in-a-box, asking you to lean on the cast trigger rather than treat the God as a standalone beater. The library clause buys that plan time: kill it and, if you choose, it resurfaces near the top, costing your opponent tempo rather than the game. By the time they find a second answer, the board it assembled has usually made the first one moot.