Woebearer

Recursion engines that hinge on connecting in combat live or die by their evasion, and Fear does the structural work here: in a metal-heavy world where artifact creatures and black creatures are the only legal blockers, an unblocked attacker is doing more than chipping at life totals. Each hit buys back a creature card from your graveyard, turning a modest 2/3 body into a slow attrition pump. What balances the card is the gap between the trigger's ceiling and its floor: the return is unconditional once damage lands, but landing damage every turn against a board that can muster a black or artifact blocker is far from guaranteed, so the value comes in fits rather than a reliable loop. This is a grind piece that asks you to keep it alive and keep it swinging, rewarding a graveyard worth raiding over a single bomb to retrieve. The recursion goes to your hand, not the battlefield, so it folds into a longer game plan instead of assembling an immediate combo: every connection is a card-advantage tick, payable into whatever the creature you pull back happens to do next.