Razorlash Transmogrant
The recursion is where this design lives, and it's built on a conditional discount that turns an opponent's own manabase against them. Six mana to bring a 3/1 back with a counter is an unattractive rate, the sort of price that would keep the ability parked forever. But if the opponent controls four or more nonbasic lands, that cost collapses to two, and suddenly a cheap artifact creature keeps standing back up for a song. It reads as an aggressive-attrition tool wearing a hate-piece's clothing: the more a deck leans on shocklands, fetchlands, painlands, and utility duals to power its color-hungry ambitions, the cheaper this Zombie becomes to recur, so the same greed that fuels a controlling manabase feeds the creature grinding against it. The "can't block" line is the counterweight; this is a one-directional threat that only ever presses forward, never holds the fort. What makes the discount elegant rather than gimmicky is that the condition sits entirely outside your control: you can't manufacture the condition, only exploit it when an opponent obliges, which they usually do by building the exact greedy mana that a resilient recursive attacker most wants to punish. That the body costs a colorless while the recursion demands double black is its own quiet tension: anyone can deploy it, but only a black deck gets to keep bringing it back.




