Grasp of Phantoms

A bounce spell that refuses to hand back the tempo. Putting a creature on top of its owner's library, rather than in hand, costs that player their next draw step, which is the line that separates this from a clean Unsummon. But it is a sorcery that strands the threat one card away rather than gone, so the math has to favor you twice: once for the four mana you spend, again for the turn the opponent burns redrawing what you bounced. The effect rewards a different target profile than a kill spell does. Bouncing a creature with a strong enters-the-battlefield trigger usually backfires, since the opponent gets to recast and trigger it again; the spell wants a hard-cast threat with no replay value, or a creature whose drawn-out recasting tax matters more than its body. Flashback complicates the evaluation, offering a steep second use that gives a control shell another copy of the same answer late, when the library-stack tax bites harder against an opponent already running on topdecks. The card sits in the gap between a pure tempo bounce like Vapor Snag and a true removal spell: it does not kill, but it delays in a way that compounds across two draw steps, and the back end asks you to treat one removal-shaped effect as two.