Moan of the Unhallowed

Two bodies now, two more later, all from a single card slot: this is what flashback was built to reward. The first cast turns four mana into a pair of 2/2 attackers, a fair-but-unremarkable rate on its own. The value lives in the back half, where the graveyard becomes a second hand. A flashback token-maker answers the central problem of grindy black midrange: you run out of cards before the game ends. By letting you recast the spell from your graveyard, it doubles the card's footprint without doubling the card count in your deck, and it keeps generating bodies through board wipes that would otherwise strand you empty-handed. The flashback cost is what keeps it honest: by the time you can afford it you should be wringing the last drops of value out of a long game, not curving out. Each Zombie is also chump-blocker, sacrifice fodder, and a trigger for anything that counts creatures entering or leaving, so the four bodies feed engines far beyond simple beatdown. Flashback's exile clause closes the loop cleanly: you cast it from the graveyard once, then it is gone, which prices the effect at exactly two casts rather than letting it recur indefinitely. Low on glamour and high on mileage, this is the card that quietly carries a deck across the turns where everyone else has run dry.