Late to Dinner

White reanimation usually arrives on a leash: the color that recurs best does so by exiling the dead permanently, capping the target's power, or scavenging an aristocrat's pile of small bodies for value. This spell walks past all of those restraints and returns any creature card outright, with no size cap and no exile clause when the body leaves. What pays for that generosity is the packaging: four mana, sorcery-speed only, no instant-speed ambush and no place in a combo loop that lives on the stack. The Food token clarifies who the design was aimed at. Three life on a saccable artifact means nothing to a competitive reanimator racing to cheat something enormous into play; it means something to a slower table grinding out a longer game, another point of margin against an aggressive clock. That pairing (a genuinely permissive reanimation clause welded to a slow, incidental lifegain rider) is a deliberate softening. Printed clean, the raw effect would read as frightening; wrapped in Food, rounded to four mana, and locked to sorcery speed, it settles into the midrange lifegain and Food-matters space rather than the reanimator shell. The timing carries most of that weight: a white player who spends a full turn to rebuy a creature is buying back value, not springing a trap, and everything about the shell points the card toward the slower, grinding deck instead of the explosive one.