Back from the Brink
A graveyard recursion engine that asks you to pay twice. Most reanimation effects in blue's history have leaned on cost reduction or outright cheating, but this one demands the full freight: exile the creature, then pay its printed mana cost again to get a token copy. The double-tax is what keeps a repeatable copy machine from running away with the game, and it shapes how you build around it. You are not reanimating your six-drops on the cheap; you are turning a graveyard full of cheap creatures with enters-the-battlefield triggers into an inexhaustible value loop, where each activation might cost only one or two mana and refunds itself in board presence or triggered effects. Because it makes a token rather than returning the original card, the exiled creature is gone after one use, so the engine rewards a deck stocked with bodies that earn their value the instant they arrive rather than ones you want to keep looping. The sorcery-speed clamp closes the door on instant-speed shenanigans, making this a main-phase grind tool rather than a combat trick or a stack interaction. It sits in the lineage of blue enchantments that convert mana and graveyard fuel into a recurring stream of creatures, trading the explosiveness of one-shot reanimation for an attrition plan that simply does not stop as long as the graveyard holds something worth copying and the mana keeps flowing.
