Jungle Creeper

A 3/3 for three in Golgari colors is unremarkable on its face; the graveyard-recursion clause carries everything worth discussing. The body is intentionally plain so the pay-to-return ability can hold the design weight: the return-to-hand for is gated steep enough that it never becomes a free engine. That price tag is the balancing act. Because the creature comes back to your hand rather than the battlefield, recurring it every turn is a mana sink plus a full recast on top, which keeps it a slow-grind threat rather than a value loop that spirals out. The structure descends from the recurring-blocker lineage black and green have printed for years: creatures that trade in combat, get answered, then walk back out of the yard for a fresh exchange, taxing an opponent's removal until they run out. Where cards like Bloodghast or Gravecrawler trigger off cheap conditions to keep returning for nearly free, this one pays full freight every time, trading speed for inevitability. The effect is an attrition piece for a deck that expects to reach the late game with mana to spare and wants a body that no single removal spell can permanently solve.