Tenacious Underdog

Blitz's central conceit is that recursion costs you something every time, and this is the cleanest demonstration of why that design works. Cast normally, it is a 3/2 for two: a fine but forgettable body. The engine lives in the graveyard, where the blitz ability lets you re-cast it for and two life, swing once with haste, replace itself with a card when it dies at end step, and return to the yard to do it all again next turn. That loop is priced to stay honest: the static four-mana cost plus a flat two-life tax on every recast keeps it from becoming a free repeatable threat, so it reads less as a value engine and more as a mana sink for the long game, a way to convert flooded lands into pressure and cards. What distinguishes it from earlier recursive threats is that the recursion is self-contained; you don't need a sacrifice outlet or a reanimation spell to bring it back, because the sacrifice-at-end-step clause is baked into the blitz cost itself. The card handles its own disposal. That makes it a grindy attrition piece that never truly stays dead, only demands the same steep toll each time you resummon it, which is exactly the trade an aggressive black deck wants when the game goes long and fresh draws stop coming.