Kotis, Sibsig Champion
Recursion engines that recast creatures from the yard usually pay their toll in mana; here the currency is the graveyard itself. The exile-three clause turns every recast into a self-limiting act: each creature you pull back trims the fuel you have left, so the engine cannot idle indefinitely on a single overpowered loop. It is a resource sink dressed as a value engine, and the once-per-turn cap keeps the recursion honest without a mana wall. What makes the design cohere is the second half: the counters trigger not only on creatures cast from the graveyard but on any creature that enters from a graveyard, which folds reanimation spells and self-mill payoffs into the same growth engine that its own recast ability feeds. Both halves reward the same deck for building a deep, disposable graveyard rather than protecting one marquee threat, and the reward compounds: a body that swells two counters at a time while it churns bodies back onto the board. The Sultai color spread is the natural home for this, black supplying the reanimation, green the fill and the grindy midrange bodies, blue the card selection and self-mill to keep three-card exiles from ever running dry. The result is a commander whose two abilities are not stapled together but genuinely load-bearing on each other: the recast feeds the counters, the graveyard feeds the recast, and the whole thing wants to be run empty and refilled, over and over.
