Kami of the Palace Fields

A 3/2 with flying and first strike is built to win the fights it picks: it blocks above its toughness against most evasive threats and survives the exchange more often than two toughness suggests, then pays out when it finally falls. That payout is the point. The death trigger reaches back to recover a Spirit at the upper end of the tribe's curve, broad enough to fish out nearly any of them, so the body is less a finisher than a recursion node that happens to trade up in combat. The model behind it solved a recurring tribal problem: how to reward a creature for dying without printing an engine that loops forever. Folding recursion into the death trigger and gating it by a mana value does exactly that. The cost is what grounds it. At six mana you pay a premium for a fragile flier whose value is back-loaded onto a death that may never come on your terms; an opponent who declines to block can leave it stranded as an overpriced beater that never feeds anything. It reads as connective tissue rather than a centerpiece, a top-end Spirit whose job is to keep the recursion chain feeding itself rather than to close out a game, the kind of payoff that earns its slot only inside a deck already committed to dying small and often.