Trumpeting Herd

Two 3/3 Elephants for four mana, paid across two turns, with the second half free. That is the whole transaction, and it is an unusually clean expression of what rebound was built to do: split a card's output across a turn cycle so the up-front rate reads as fair while the total value is not. The first Elephant lands off a main-phase cast, then rebound exiles the card itself as it resolves; at the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that same card again from exile without paying its cost. What shifts the strategic axis is that the payload arrives spread out rather than all at once, giving you pressure now and a guaranteed follow-up. While it sits in exile the card is untouchable: it is not on the stack and not a permanent, so no removal or countermagic can reach it. That protection ends the instant you recast it, because rebound puts the card back onto the stack as an ordinary spell, fully exposed to counters again before the second Elephant hits the battlefield. The real price is tempo and control of timing: the second token comes on your schedule, not the board's, and a sweeper the turn after can still catch both bodies if you have committed them to the same battlefield. The split also quietly favors go-wide payoffs and anthem effects, since it hands you two separate bodies with two separate enter-the-battlefield events rather than one large threat. Unflashy green board-making that measures its worth in presence delivered a beat late.