Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise
The recursion loop is the whole design, and it runs on an unusual fuel line. When the front half dies, you don't get it back as a creature: you get it back as the Adventure half, an instant that spits out a Zombie token before the card exiles for a later recast. That token, of course, gets the anthem the creature side hands to your creature tokens, so each death cycle nets you a body that grows the board and refills the exile-cast option. It's a resilience engine dressed as a two-drop lord, built so that removal advances your plan rather than stopping it. The anthem itself is narrow by lord standards (only tokens benefit, not your whole team), which is what keeps the loop from spiraling into a general anthem effect; the payoff is the churn, not the buff. The Adventure framing does structural work that white and black rarely get in a single card: white supplies the token-lord front, black supplies the death-triggered graveyard cast and the Zombie it manufactures, and the two halves feed each other across the color pie. The result is a card whose text reads like a puzzle box: you deploy it, you want it to die, and the dying is how it keeps producing. Detective-typed and legendary, it leans on token-matters and death-matters shells at once, sitting at the seam where aristocrats and go-wide overlap.
