Vraska, the Silencer

Reanimation with a demotion clause. Most black recursion returns a dead creature as a creature: the whole point is to steal the body and swing it back at its owner. This flips the transaction. When an opponent's nontoken creature dies, you pay one mana and pull it back tapped under your control, but it arrives as a Treasure, its creature type stripped away along with its power and toughness. What it keeps is everything else: the returned card retains all of the dead creature's rules text, so its enters-the-battlefield trigger, its activated abilities, its static effects all come along for the ride. You did not raise a soldier; you raised a mana rock that still remembers how to do its old job. That reframing is the design discipline that keeps repeatable, opponent-only reanimation on a three-mana legend from tipping into oppression: the demoted card can never block, attack, or crew, but a dead value engine can keep triggering, and even the dullest vanilla body still cashes out for a mana of any color when you sacrifice the Treasure. Pair that with deathtouch on the front and the trigger feeds itself: a 3/3 deathtoucher trades up in combat indefinitely, and each trade you win hands you another Treasure and another chance to pick a corpse's brain. The Gorgon read is precise: she does not collect trophies, she turns her victims into something that works for her instead of against you.