Resourceful Return

Raise Dead has spent most of its life as a card too embarrassing to maindeck: a sorcery that does one thing, returns a creature, and asks nothing of you in return. The fix here is to bundle that recursion with a payoff that only fires under a deckbuilding condition you were probably meeting anyway. Control an artifact and the recursion comes stapled to a card draw, which turns a replacement-value effect into genuine card advantage. The structure is the interesting part: the artifact clause is a conditional rider, not a kicker, so there is no extra cost to pay and no decision to make at cast. You either control the artifact or you do not, and the spell rewards you for having built around it without making the recursion contingent on it. That separation matters. The creature comes back regardless, so the card never bricks in a board state where you have no artifacts; it simply scales down to the plain effect that black has had since the earliest sets. It is a clean piece of design for an artifact-matters black deck: a recursion spell that pulls double duty as a draw spell, priced so the floor is acceptable and the ceiling is exactly the two-for-one that aristocrats and sacrifice shells want when they are looping a value creature back for another go.