Master Skald

A recursion engine built on a trade you have to want to make. The body arrives with an offer: spend a creature card already in your graveyard to buy back an artifact or enchantment. That exchange is the point. Most white value creatures return dead cards for free, but this one converts one kind of graveyard resource into another, which turns a passive dig into an actual decision about what your yard is worth. The creature you exile is the cost, and it matters that it is a creature specifically: the card assumes you have bodies to spare and permanents worth reclaiming, so it wants a deck that fills its graveyard on purpose rather than by accident. That makes it a natural fit for builds leaning on sacrifice fodder, cheap artifacts, or enchantment payloads, where the exiled creature was never coming back anyway and the returned permanent redeploys for another loop. A 4/4 wrapped around a conditional value trigger is not the sort of stat line that headlines a deck, but the ability points at a specific engine rather than dumping a generic return-a-card mode onto a warm body. The distinction it draws (creature card out, artifact or enchantment card in) is narrower than white's usual reanimation-adjacent recursion, and that narrowness is exactly what tells you which shell it was drawn for.