Drag Under

Bounce-and-replace is one of the oldest soft-tempo templates in blue: undo a creature, dig a card deeper, never fall behind on resources. The whole sorcery-speed line is a tradeoff against the obvious instant-speed competitor. Vapor Snag or Unsummon answers a creature in the moment, on the opponent's turn, in combat; this version surrenders that flexibility entirely and asks to be cast on your own turn, before anything has happened, as a tempo-positive setup play rather than a reactive one. What it buys for that concession is the cantrip. Returning a blocker so you can attack, or resetting an enters-the-battlefield trigger you want to abuse, costs you nothing in cards because the draw refills the slot you spent. That structural difference matters more than the rate looks: a pure bounce spell is card disadvantage dressed up as tempo, but a bounce-plus-draw breaks even on cards while still buying a turn of pressure. The design lives in that exact corner: too slow and too expensive to be a serious combat trick, but priced so the cantrip is real rather than a stapled-on consolation. Filler by appearance, glue by function, the unglamorous connective tissue that keeps a tempo deck's hand from emptying while its clock keeps ticking.