Golgari Brownscale

Dredge usually charges you for skipping the draw step: Golgari Grave-Troll buries cards by the fistful and gives you nothing back, and most dredgers treat your library as fuel to incinerate. This Lizard runs the math the other direction. Every time it crawls back into your hand from the yard, it hands you two life, so the recursion that should bleed you instead drips a small, steady gain. That makes it the dredge creature built to outlast rather than to overrun: each loop is two life, a 2/3 to throw in front of an attacker, and two more cards in the bin for anything else that feeds on graveyards. The body does enough; the real value is a 1GG creature you can keep cashing in turn after turn for a repeatable life swing. Dredge 2 looks shallow next to the deeper dredgers, but a low number is exactly right on a card you intend to bounce back constantly: it shrinks the odds of milling something you needed while keeping the lifegain on tap. Among a mechanic defined by self-destruction, this is the gentle one, the dredger you run when the plan is to grind an opponent out instead of detonating your own deck.