Invasive Species

The bounce clause cuts both ways, and that ambivalence is the entire design. Read as a drawback, returning a permanent you control is a tax on an otherwise fair 3/3 body: you give back a land, a creature, something already on the table to pay for the privilege of casting a green Insect. Read as an asset, the entry trigger is a one-shot you aim at your own permanents on purpose, picking up a tapped-out mana dork to recast, resetting a creature whose own arrival ability is worth more than another body, or rescuing something from a sweeper that resolves a turn later. The wording leaves the choice to the controller; "another" is the only restriction, sparing the Insect itself but forcing a return somewhere else. That places it among the self-bounce green creatures whose value is set entirely by what you have to recur, a permanent that does nothing surrounded by plain bodies and turns into a value handoff on a board built around enters-the-battlefield triggers. The trigger fires once, on the way in, so it does not loop on its own; the renewal has to come from elsewhere, a way to flicker or recast the Insect itself. The body is honest filler; the entry trigger carries whatever the card is worth, and it asks the deckbuilder to supply the synergy rather than handing one over.