Moss-Pit Skeleton

The recursion clause is the reason this design exists, and it turns a plain body into a resource you never quite spend. Once it hits the graveyard, every +1/+1 counter that lands on your board (a proliferate trigger, an anthem-by-counter, a kicked creature entering grown) offers to put it back on top of your library. That gate is the point: the card asks nothing beyond the counters engine you were already building, and in exchange it keeps re-drawing itself for free. It functions less like a card you cast and more like a card you keep finding at the top of your deck. The kicker mode reframes what the two-drop is doing on the way down: pay the extra and it arrives already carrying three counters, a real threat instead of a small body you intend to discard. But note the sequencing, because the design is stricter than it looks: a kicked cast does not feed its own return, since the card has to already be sitting in the graveyard when counters are placed for the recursion to trigger. The two modes are two separate plans, not one loop. Cast it cheap early, get it into the yard, and let the counters deck ferry it home over and over; or pay full freight for a body that both threatens and adds to your board's counter density. The recursion is deliberately locked behind a deckbuilding commitment, which is what separates a self-returning creature like this from graveyard staples that loop no matter what you are doing.