Conciliator's Duelist

Repartee reframes what a targeted removal spell is for. Point a spell that targets a creature (a burn spell, a fight spell, a targeted disenchant-on-a-creature effect) and the keyword rides along, letting you exile up to one creature of your choosing and return it at the next end step: the spell does its intended job and the blink is a free rider. That opens two lines from the same trigger. Aim the spell at an opposing creature and you can flicker one of your own to re-fire an enters-the-battlefield effect or dodge an incoming removal spell, though the returned creature comes back with summoning sickness and without whatever counters it had; the blink is a reset, not a preservation tool, so it favors creatures whose value lives in the ETB rather than in accumulated state. Aim the spell at your own creature and the blink target flexes to whatever the board asks for. The body is where the deck's economics live: a 4/3 that draws a card and drains everyone on arrival, so it never trades down even when the Repartee engine sits idle. The color pair is doing deliberate work. White supplies the disciplined small-target instants and sorceries; black supplies the reasons to keep reusing enter-the-battlefield triggers, the drain and the card draw. The design lesson is that a keyword can convert a class of spells you already cast into a repeatable blink engine without printing a single new spell, because Repartee reads what you target rather than asking you to cast something specific. The catch is that it only pays decks built to target creatures on purpose; a shell leaning on sweepers gets nothing from it.