False Defeat

Reanimation in white is supposed to be the costly, conditional kind: pay full retail, accept a finality counter, exile the target afterward, or settle for a clean recursion of something small. This sorcery sidesteps all of that bookkeeping and just hands the creature back to the battlefield, no caveats, no restriction on power or color. The cost is the only check on it. Four mana at sorcery speed is not cheap, and you pay it after the creature is already dead, which means the play pattern is closer to a midrange value engine than a combo enabler: it wants you to have already spent a fat threat into removal, then buy it back at parity. What it does not do is care how the creature got to the graveyard, which is the wrinkle that keeps it interesting. Self-mill, sacrifice value, a board wipe that caught your own bomb: any of those fill the yard, and this picks the best card out of it without asking for an exile clause or a sacrifice in return. That permanence is unusual for white, a color whose reanimation traditionally comes wrapped in a string that snaps the loop shut. The rate is plain and the speed is slow, but the effect itself is the unconditional version of something white normally has to pay extra to imitate.