Shi'ar Soldier

The self-bounce activated ability is usually printed as a downside patched onto something else; here it is the whole engine. Returning your own permanents to hand at will, once per activation during your own turn, is a rules-text primitive that only becomes a machine when the things you bounce want to be recast: enters-the-battlefield triggers you can reload, an aura or a growing set of counters you can shed off a permanent before it becomes a liability, a creature you can lift out of the way of a targeted removal spell resolving on the stack. The tap symbol and the once-per-activation cost keep it from spiraling, and the "during your turn" clause closes the instant-speed window that would otherwise let you rescue a permanent from removal on an opponent's turn: this is a build-around tool, not a protection piece. A 1/3 flyer is the deliberately modest chassis, cheap enough to deploy early and evasive enough to chip in while the recursion loop does the real work. The design lineage runs through cards that made bouncing your own board a resource rather than a tempo loss; what distinguishes this one is that the ability targets any other permanent you control, not just creatures, which quietly folds artifacts, enchantments, and lands into the same reset button. It rewards a deck full of things that pay you for arriving, and asks nothing in return except the tap and the mana.