Recover

Black has always offered creature recursion at a single black pip, so the design question for any costlier version is what the extra mana buys, and here it buys card advantage. Raise Dead gets the body back but is a straight one-for-one; this returns the creature and draws you a card on top, actively growing your hand. The only tax is tempo: two more mana and a sorcery-speed restriction that means it cannot ambush a sweeper or rebuy a blocker mid-combat. The ceiling is deliberately low. It touches creature cards only, the replacement card is whatever happens to be on top rather than a chosen target, and it offers none of the buyback or repeated recursion a flashier version might. That low ceiling is the point: this is black's graveyard-as-second-hand philosophy stated at its most economical, where the only cost of rebuying a value creature is mana plus a turn of patience. The cantrip is what keeps the play pattern from feeling like pure tempo loss, smoothing the recursion enough that bringing a creature back rarely leaves you behind on cards.