Oketra's Attendant

The economy here is the whole reason this card wants to exist twice over. A flying 3/3 that can draw a card when the board doesn't want another body (cycling), then returns as a token copy once the graveyard finally becomes a resource (embalm), rarely strands you holding something dead. The tell is that the embalm cost matches the hardcast cost exactly: this isn't a body you pay a premium to recur, it's the same five-mana flyer again, gated behind a sorcery-speed activation. Embalm exiles the card from the graveyard as part of its activation cost, so the copy can only be made once, and it enters directly as a white Zombie Bird Soldier with no mana cost, still carrying the original's evasion and 3/3 frame. That structure does the work other graveyard recursion handles through resolution-triggered exile or one-shot loops. Cycling and embalm pull in opposite directions, one discarding the card, the other reviving it; the result is a card that seldom represents a true loss. The floor is replacing itself for two mana, the ceiling is two evasive 3/3s spread across a long game. Plain by design, and the plainness is the point. It makes no demands on a hand beyond the mana to cash in its back half, a flying soldier built to keep a white midrange draw functional from the early turns through the grind.