Golgari Thug

Dredge asks you to treat your library as a resource you spend, and the bargain has a hidden cost: cards milled into the graveyard mostly stay there unless you build dedicated recursion. The death trigger here is that recursion, folded into the same two-mana body that fuels the yard. When the 1/1 dies, it tucks any creature card from your graveyard back where your next draw lives, so an ordinary draw step pulls that creature into your hand. In a deck flooding cards downward, that turns a fatty rotting under thirty other cards into a fatty you actually get to cast. The body is fodder by design: the 1/1 wants to chump or get sacrificed so the trigger fires, and so the card itself can dredge back out of the yard, repeating the loop. The real curation move is sequencing. Kill the Thug, position the creature you want, then take a clean draw rather than a dredge that turn, so the card you placed arrives in hand instead of getting milled past. That discipline is the whole skill of playing it well, because a careless dredge after you have set up your draw simply buries the creature you just rescued. It does nothing in a fair deck and quietly holds together a graveyard engine that would otherwise eat its own threats.