Grafted Butcher

A tribal lord that answers its own biggest weakness. Anthem creatures die, and when the lord dies the board it was propping up folds a step behind it; here the sacrifice-recur clause turns that fragility into a resource. The activation lets you cash in a spent artifact or a chump-blocked body to bring the Butcher back at sorcery speed, resetting the +1/+1 across your other Phyrexians and stapling menace onto the whole team the turn it lands. That entry trigger does the real distinguishing work: the menace pulse is a repeatable alpha-strike enabler, and because the recursion cost feeds on the same sacrifice fodder a Phyrexian shell already generates, each return is a small aristocrats-flavored value loop rather than a mana-sink dead end. The design puts two jobs in one two-mana slot: it grows the board as a lord, and it converts your graveyard back into pressure as a recursion engine, with the artifact-or-creature payment doing double duty as both a fair-cost tax and a natural pairing with sacrifice synergies. The restriction that pays for all this is the sorcery timing on the return, which locks it out of combat-trick reanimation and forces the recursion to be a main-phase plan rather than an instant-speed ambush.