Steadfast Sentinel

Eternalize was built to give a creature two lives at two scales, and this Cleric is one of the plainer demonstrations of the trade. Alive, it pays full price for vigilance on a modest body; once it dies, the graveyard rebuy comes back larger and recolored, a Zombie token that keeps swinging without leaving the back door open. The structural difference between this and flashback or any other graveyard recursion is that Eternalize exiles the original to mint the token, so there is no recurring loop to exploit: the second body is a fixed, one-time upgrade, and the sorcery-speed restriction means the rebuy never ambushes a combat step. What that buys is a creature hard to answer with single-target removal, since trading away the front half only sets up the better back half, plus a mana sink for the late game when the early body has stopped mattering. Vigilance carries across both halves, which is the quiet point of the design: a token that attacks and still blocks turns the rebuy into presence on both axes rather than a one-directional threat. None of this makes the card a centerpiece; it is a workmanlike attrition piece whose whole value is that it costs an opponent two answers where most creatures cost one.