Reach of Branches

The recursion clause is the whole pitch: an instant that refuses to stay in the graveyard so long as you keep playing lands with the Forest type. Most token-makers spend themselves on resolution and leave; this one ties its second, third, and fourth uses to a trigger green decks hit constantly, since any Forest entering brings the card back to hand, whether that Forest is a basic or a nonbasic that carries the type. That turns a single card into a slow attrition engine, each land drop another 2/5 body waiting to be summoned back. The token is built defensively: five toughness walls almost everything in combat while its power is a footnote, which suits the grind it wants to win. This is not a tempo play. What pays for the endless recursion is the up-front rate and the pace at which it accrues; you commit full mana each time and gain nothing immediate beyond the body, so the value only compounds across a long game where land drops keep arriving and the graveyard keeps refilling the hand. The Treefolk-and-Forest pairing is no accident: it leans on the old fantasy of the forest itself standing up to fight, the land you play and the creature you make drawn from the same wellspring. Being a Kindred Instant rather than a creature spell is a quiet wrinkle too, dodging the things that punish creatures on the stack while still leaving a tribal body behind.