Coiling Rebirth

Reanimation has always been a Faustian bargain: you cheat mana to put a monster on the battlefield, and the deck spends the rest of its slots insulating against how badly it wants that monster back. What Gift bolts onto that formula here is a genuine choice at cast time. Skip the promise, and this is a plain reanimation spell that returns one creature and asks nothing of you. Make the promise, and you hand an opponent a fresh draw in exchange for a second copy of what you just raised, shrunk to a 1/1 token. That token restriction is where the design earns its keep. It only fires on a nonlegendary target, which quietly steers the card toward value engines and enters-the-battlefield payloads rather than a single legendary bomb, and the 1/1 body strips the copy of its stats while keeping every triggered ability and static line intact. That inversion is the interesting part: the spell rewards you most when the creature's abilities matter more than its size, and least when you were only ever reanimating for a fat attacker. The gift is the cost, paid up front and to your opponent, so the math is never free: you are trading a card of card advantage for a second instance of a synergy piece, and the spell trusts you to know when that trade is worth making.