Coin of Fate

The reanimation spell that hands the choice to your opponent. Most graveyard recursion in white either loops small creatures on a schedule or pays a steep tax to bring back one big body; this one asks you to exile two creature cards and then surrender control over which of them comes back. You set the terms, the opponent picks the outcome: they choose one card to bury on the bottom of your library, and whatever they leave behind returns to the battlefield tapped. The design tension lives entirely in that fork. A rational opponent bottoms the card they fear most and hands you the lesser of the two, so the artifact only rewards you when both exiled creatures are threats worth playing. Load it lopsided and they simply blank your reanimation for the turn; load it with two comparable bombs and their "choice" is deciding which good card you get to keep. The payoff for pairing correctly is doubled: a returned body and the monarch crown, which turns a one-shot sacrifice into ongoing card flow. The surveil on entry is not decoration; it seeds the graveyard the activated ability wants to draw from, so the artifact quietly stocks its own fuel a turn or two before it cashes out. The cost is real: four mana, a tap, the artifact's own life, and two cards from the yard, all to return one creature and claim a crown any attacker can steal back. It is a reanimator payoff built around negotiation instead of certainty.