Nemesis Phoenix

Every recursive Phoenix pays for its return with something you can pay again: mana, a discard, a shot of life. This one demands a battlefield state instead. The reanimation ability costs only two and a red, cheap enough to loop for the rest of a game, but it fires only while you are attacking two or more opponents at once. That single clause reroutes the whole design away from the one-versus-one axis every earlier Phoenix was built for. In a duel the ability is dead text; the 4/2 flyer just dies and stays dead. Across a multiplayer table it becomes an engine that rewards the exact aggression the format's politics discourage, spreading damage wide rather than focusing a single threat, and the bird comes back already tapped and swinging with no summoning-sickness tax on the recursion. The restriction is deliberate: a resilient evasive body that never has to be recast, priced against the reality that hitting several players at once makes you the table's problem. It is a Phoenix that only rises for someone willing to draw fire from everyone at once, which is a narrower and more honest ask than the two-and-a-red rate alone lets on.