Hidden Horror

Black has never been allowed a clean 4/4 for three, so this one buys its rate with a toll collected the instant it lands: discard a creature card or watch it leave the way it came. The discard reads like a tax, but it points the card squarely at decks that wanted creatures in the graveyard to begin with. Pitch something you can reanimate, return with later recursion, or feed to a graveyard payoff, and the cost stops working against you; the oversized body and the card you throw away are pulling toward the same plan. This is reanimator-adjacent thinking from an era before reanimator had a name: arrive ahead of curve, spend a creature you were happy to bury anyway. Cast it from an empty hand or with nothing worth losing and it simply sacrifices itself for nothing, the check that holds the stat line in line. The design belongs to a recurring black conversation that has run through the game for as long as the color has existed, where raw size gets paid for in card economy, and the price evaporates the moment your deck is built to want exactly what it asks you to throw away.