Azorius Aethermage

A bounce engine wearing a 1/1 body, designed to convert the act of returning permanents into card flow. The trigger fires on any permanent picked up, not just creatures, so it rewards the actions a blink-and-bounce shell already takes: resetting an enters-the-battlefield creature for a second use, rescuing a permanent from removal, clearing an Aura or counter. The payment per draw is the throttle on the value: you decide, each time, whether the card is worth the mana, a choice that bites hardest when several things hit your hand in one turn and the costs pile up. The trigger does not check who did the returning, so an opponent's bounce spell feeds you cards too, turning a tempo setback into an upside. That body is incidental by design: this is a Wizard built to sit back and turn recursion into draws rather than swing for damage. It descends from an early-era line of white-blue control pieces that tried to make tempo-positive bounce into a self-sustaining loop, and it shares that lineage's flaw: with nothing to return, the engine sits idle and the card does nothing at all.