Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

The trick is that discarding sidesteps the creature's mana cost entirely. Any creature card binned by way of discard (a rummage effect, a cycler, a hellbent-style hand dump, an opponent's discard spell) can be flipped into a copy for , no matter what that creature would have cost cast normally. That is the reanimation-adjacent axis it opens: not returning cards from the yard, but intercepting them on the way in, copying the biggest, most expensive enters-the-battlefield creature you can pitch and cashing in its ETB or death trigger for a fraction of the price. The fixed 4/4 black-Zombie base is the only clause reining this in: the token keeps everything else the discarded card printed (flying, trample, whatever ability made it worth copying), and only the power, toughness, color, and type get overwritten. So you are not diluting the payoff, just capping the body. What makes it sneaky is where it sits on the color chart. The frame reads as an Orzhov two-drop, but the buried in the triggered ability puts a blue pip in its rules text, dragging its full color identity into Esper. Its whole reason to exist is gated behind a color the mana cost never advertises. The frame promises Orzhov, the engine demands Esper, and the whole design lives in that gap, rewarding a shell built to throw creatures away on purpose.