Viashino Sandstalker

A 4/2 with haste for three mana that swings hard the turn it lands, then packs itself up before it can be killed: the forced return to hand is the whole design, not a penalty bolted on. That end-step bounce turns a fragile body into a recurring threat that dodges sorcery-speed removal and sweepers. Your opponent never gets a clean window to kill it on their turn because it simply is not there. Replaying it costs the mana again, which is the friction that keeps the rate fair: you are buying four damage and a tempo swing on the installment plan, not parking a permanent threat. The same clause flips to an asset wherever an enters-the-battlefield trigger or a blink payoff lives, since the card volunteers to leave the battlefield every turn for free. It is a sharp expression of an early-Magic design instinct: pair an aggressive stat line with a built-in drawback that doubles as an upside depending on the deck around it. The Visions-era red catalog leaned into these self-bouncing aggressors, and Sandstalker is the archetype's sharpest knife: efficient enough to matter in the race, evasive through timing enough to survive the games it would otherwise lose.