Twilight Drover

Most token strategies of its era treated their disposable bodies as exactly that: spend them, swing with them, sacrifice them, and accept the attrition. This Spirit inverts the bookkeeping. Every creature token that leaves the battlefield (yours, or in a symmetrical board, anyone's) banks a +1/+1 counter, and those counters are the consumable that powers a closed loop: pay to discharge one and manufacture two fresh 1/1 flyers, which themselves become future counters when they die. The death of a token is what feeds the engine, so the card actively wants its own production thrown away. A flat three-mana activation, plus the counter you spent dying tokens to accumulate, keeps the loop from spiraling and rations how fast you can rebuild the swarm. The rest of the bargain is paid by the body itself: a single point of toughness holding up the whole apparatus, which has to survive long enough for the counters to stack, and any sweeper that resets the board takes the Drover along with the tokens it would have fed on. That fragility is the real tension in the design: it asks you to protect a one-toughness creature in a deck whose entire plan is feeding bodies into the grinder. Part recursion engine, part grindy finisher that slowly re-floods after the table buys time, it remains one of the cleanest expressions of treating token death as a resource rather than a cost.