Patchwork Crawler

An assembled corpse that borrows the parts it steals. Most graveyard recursion in blue answers one question: how do I get this card back? This one asks a stranger question: what can I do with its buttons? Exiling a creature card here does not return it to play or to hand; it feeds the counter and grafts that creature's activated abilities onto a 1/2 body. The result is a modular toolbox where each exile permanently rewires what the Crawler can do. A firebreathing pump, a regeneration shield, a tap-for-value engine, a mana sink: whatever activated ability lived on the exiled card now lives here, along with its original activation cost, and the abilities stack, so a well-stocked graveyard turns this into a single creature wearing every function you have buried. The design leans on a real constraint to keep it honest: it only harvests activated abilities, so enters-the-battlefield triggers, attack triggers, and static keywords stay behind, and each new theft costs you up front regardless of what you are grafting. It is a slow, deliberate engine that rewards a graveyard curated for its levers rather than its bodies, which is a different construction problem than most reanimation asks you to solve. The Zombie Horror flavor does the work the mechanic implies: a thing sewn together from other creatures, keeping only the moving parts.