Kessig Cagebreakers

The payoff lives entirely in your graveyard, which makes this a green beater that wants a yard full of dead creatures before it ever swings. The trigger keys off creature cards in the graveyard, not bodies on the board, and it fires the moment this declares as an attacker, so no combat damage needs to land for the Wolves to arrive. The build-around is a self-mill or sacrifice shell that treats dead creatures as ammunition rather than loss, and because each Wolf is a permanent, the swarm compounds: a stocked graveyard turns one swing into a standing army that persists past combat and grows with every subsequent attack. The detail that disciplines the engine is that the tokens enter tapped and attacking, committing immediately and unable to block on the crackback, so the controller wagers a turn of defensive tempo to flood the board. Reanimator-adjacent strategies that previously saw the graveyard only as a target for recursion gain a second axis here: every creature you decline to bring back is still worth a 2/2 on the next attack, so the same pile of corpses serves two plans at once. The 3/4 body stays modest by design, so the engine pays only once the graveyard is deep and an attack actually happens. Slow to assemble and easy to interrupt before it fires, but the ceiling is a sudden, durable swarm conjured from a turn of patient mill.