Retrofitted Transmogrant

Recursion is the sacrifice deck's engine, and the usual tax is a return that crawls back small and needs regrowing. This one flips the arithmetic on the first trip out: a one-mana 1/1 that comes back tapped as a 3/3, so the fodder that returns is bigger than the fodder that died. That upgrade only pays once, since counters vanish when the creature dies, so each subsequent reanimation resets it back to the same tapped 3/3 rather than compounding; the ceiling is built in, not incidental. What the design actually buys is a sacrifice target you want to feed repeatedly, a body that reanimates itself for four mana without asking the deck to run a dedicated reanimation spell. The cost is the honest part of the deal: at four mana per return, the loop is never free, and a sacrifice shell has to spend real resources to keep recurring it rather than grinding it out in a single turn. Everything else is riders that widen its reach: a Zombie for the tribes that count them, an artifact for the shells that trigger off artifacts entering or dying, and above all a black one-drop built to die and return, which is the exact profile the aristocrats archetype has spent years asking for.