Can't Stay Away

Reanimation with a governor built in. The reason black reanimation spells cost so little relative to what they return is that the graveyard is a discount pile: dump a fatty, spend two mana, skip the curve. This design pays for its rate a different way, by refusing to touch anything bigger than a small utility creature, so the ceiling is a value body and not a haymaker. What it gives back in exchange is repetition. Flashback turns one reanimation spell into two, and the replacement clause the returned body picks up is the tax that keeps the loop honest: instead of dying, the creature is exiled, so each body you recur can only leave once, and no single small creature becomes an infinite recursion engine. That pairing (a modest target, doubled casts, a one-way ticket for the reanimated body) is what makes it read as a grind card rather than a combo piece. Because the exile replacement stops the body from actually hitting the graveyard, the payoff is the front end of the creature, not its back end: enters-the-battlefield triggers, tempo bodies like mana dorks and hatebears, anything that has already done its work by the time it dies. The reward is not one explosive turn; it is two guaranteed extra bodies wrung from cards you already paid for, the incremental attrition a white-black midrange deck is built to accumulate while the graveyard keeps filling.