Recruit the Worthy

Buyback is the mechanic that converts a one-shot spell into an open-ended mana sink, and here it does so with the humblest possible payload: a single 1/1 Soldier. The math is deliberately unhurried. Pay one white, get a token. Pay four (the one plus the buyback three), get a token and the spell back in hand, ready to fire again as soon as you scrape together four more mana. Left alone across a long game, that loop assembles an army of Soldiers one body at a time, each pass costing more mana than the creature is worth on its own. The design revives an old go-wide idea, folded into a single instant that recurs itself indefinitely for a price. Instant timing is the quiet upside: hold it up as a surprise blocker, or spend it at end of turn when nothing better presents itself, then buy it back for next turn. What keeps it fair is the token itself. A recurring 1/1 only threatens in decks built to multiply small bodies or convert them into something larger; on raw rate, it is a trickle, not a flood. This is a payoff for a board that already cares about creature count, not an engine that closes a game by itself.