March of the Returned

Four mana returns two creature cards to your hand, and the rate is exactly as plain as it sounds. This is the bulk-common tier of black graveyard recursion: no body attached, no cost reduction, no clause that rewards a particular creature type or a full graveyard. It does the structural work Raise Dead has always done, just doubled and priced accordingly, which puts it well below the recursion that anchors a deck. The job is volume in a grindy game: rebuying two sacrifice creatures after an aristocrats turn, recovering a pair of value bodies from a board wipe, refueling a deck that treats its creatures as ammunition rather than threats. Returning to hand rather than to the battlefield is the line that keeps it honest; you still pay the mana to recast whatever you get back, making this a deferred investment rather than a free swing of tempo. The effect is reasonable when your creatures are individually expendable but collectively worth recurring, and inert when they are not. Built as common-rarity sacrifice support, it lives in graveyard-matters shells and goes unremarked everywhere else.