Offspring's Revenge

Recursion that keeps taxing itself. Once per combat, one red, white, or black creature card leaves the graveyard permanently and returns as a hasty 1/1: not the creature you buried, but a shrunken copy, its type line and every triggered ability intact, its stats gutted to nothing. That trade is the point. Where most graveyard engines want fat late-game bodies looping back at full size, this one is built for creatures whose power and toughness were never the payout. A copied Priest of the Blood Rite still makes its demon; a copied creature with a death trigger still pays out when it dies. The value lives in what the token does on arrival and on departure, not in rebuilding a board of real threats. The tokens are disposable by construction, since a token that hits the graveyard ceases to exist and cannot be recurred a second time. The exile clause reinforces the single-use logic, forcing the deck around it to be a graveyard worth strip-mining rather than one card worth looping. The timing is deliberate: firing as combat opens, rather than in your main phase, means the token is attacking-legal the instant it resolves, so the haste is not a bonus so much as the reason the trigger sits where it does. A slow three-color enchantment that asks you to fill the yard first, then pays you back one aristocrat trigger per turn.