Awaken the Honored Dead
Three chapters spread across three colors, arriving on the strict Saga clock: chapter one the turn it lands, chapter two after next turn's draw step, chapter three the one after. The design resolves the usual tempo cost of unconditional removal by front-loading it. Destroy target nonland permanent normally asks its full price up front, but here the kill fires immediately while the rest of the value trickles in on a schedule you already knew when you cast it, effectively deferring two thirds of the card's payload. Chapter two's mill three reads as fuel rather than disruption in a Sultai graveyard shell: it stocks the yard that chapter three then digs. And chapter three is the payoff that earns the sequence, a discard-to-return reaching for a creature or land card, letting you pitch a dead card in hand to pull a threat back into it. Note that it returns to hand, not the battlefield, so this is retrieval, not reanimation; the card still has to be recast. The coherence is in how each chapter feeds the next: kill something, fill the yard, then buy back off what you buried. It asks you to think several turns ahead about what you will want to hold rather than what you want now, rewarding a deck built to churn its own graveyard rather than one treating the mill as incidental. The sacrifice-after-III clause forecloses any loop: a single deliberate arc of value that spends itself and leaves.
