Phyrexian Dragon Engine

Cast from hand, this is a plain double-striking 2/2, a body that trades poorly and does nothing to earn its slot. The whole design points at the second life: unearth it for , and the enters-from-graveyard trigger lets you dump a stalled hand and refill to three, converting a topdeck war into a fresh grip while a threat that hits twice lands on the board. That overlap (a reanimated finisher that also cycles your hand) reframes the card as an engine rather than a body. Unearth is a sorcery-speed activated ability, so the burst is not a flexible instant-speed reload; you spend a main phase to bring the creature back, empty a dead hand, and draw into gas, and end-of-turn exile means it is a one-shot conversion, not a recurring loop. The double strike matters more than the base stats suggest, since it doubles whatever you pin to the body through equipment or pumps, turning a modest threat into a real clock alongside the card advantage. It is also half of a meld pair, folding into Mishra, Claimed by Gix when assembled, which recasts the whole thing as a component rather than a standalone play. Read alone it is an aggressive-reanimator engine that rewards emptying your hand; read as a meld piece it is one face of a larger machine. Either way the value lives in the yard, not the stack.