Lorehold Archivist // Restore Relic
A first-strike 3/2 that reads your graveyard on every upkeep, this Dwarf turns a stocked yard into a slow drip of token-copy value. The front face arms itself once three or more artifact and/or creature cards sit in your graveyard; while prepared, you may cast a copy of Restore Relic (paying its mana cost, as any cast), and doing so unprepares the creature until the threshold rearms on a later turn. The wrinkle is that Restore Relic feeds on the same resource that flipped the switch: it exiles an artifact or creature card from your graveyard to make a token copy, so each activation strip-mines the very fuel the upkeep trigger counts. That is the tension the design leans on. You want a full yard to keep the state live, but every use spends it down, so recursion advances one card per re-arm instead of snowballing. Functionally this is reanimation rerouted into token-copy value: the token copies the exiled card (legendary if the original was, and subject to the legend rule accordingly), but the original leaves for exile rather than returning to play. The body trades up in combat while the upkeep clock ticks against your graveyard count. What the prepared state buys over a plain graveyard-exile recast is repeatability gated by resources rather than a single exhausted use: pay the mana, spend a card, and wait to re-arm.
