Stormfront Riders

Bounce as payoff instead of penalty: this design inverts the usual cost of returning your own permanents to hand. The enters trigger demands two creatures back, which reads like a stiff tax until the second ability registers. Whenever a creature returns to your hand from the battlefield, you mint a 1/1 white Soldier, so the very event that looks like tempo loss instead stamps out two bodies on arrival. The math is the hook: the entry pulls two creatures, the token trigger answers with two Soldiers, and the cycle nets even before any future bounce sweetens it. The crucial wrinkle is that the token ability keys on the words "to your hand," not on leaving the battlefield in general, so flicker and blink effects don't trigger it directly; they exile and return, never touching your hand. The pieces that feed it are the ones that actually re-grip a permanent, like Cloudstone Curio, where bouncing this for value triggers a Soldier and lets you replay it for two more bounces. Note that the enters ability is mandatory and does not target: cast it onto an empty board and it counts itself among "creatures you control," so the only legal return is itself, sending the Riders straight back to hand for a single Soldier. That self-immolation is the price of the engine. Wired into recursion, it turns a re-buyable enters trigger into a steady drip of tokens; cast cold, it punishes the empty board by bouncing itself.