Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie

Half of a two-card promise, and the more generous half at that. On its own, the enters trigger is a self-contained value package: fill the graveyard by two, then pull a permanent back out of it, which means the mill is never a real cost to the caster and often actively fuels the return. That loop rewards a deck stuffed with cheap permanents worth reburying and rebuying, and it makes the body an engine piece long before the meld ever comes up. The meld is the ambition. Owning and controlling both this and Fang, Fearless l'Cie unlocks a first-main-phase option to pay , exile the pair, and assemble Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance, a payoff that pushes the deck into a Golgari splash it would not otherwise want. What makes the design honest is how much friction sits in that window: you need both halves in play, both owned by you, and enough untapped mana to spare on your own turn before combat, all while the opponent has had every chance to remove either piece. The recursion clause is the insurance policy against exactly that fragility, letting you claw a fallen half back from the yard to try the assembly again. It is a meld card that functions cleanly when the meld never happens, which is the rarest thing a meld card can be.