Return Upon the Tide

Reanimation with a tribal kicker, and the split personality lives entirely in how you pay for it. As a raw effect it does the oldest black thing in the game: hand over full price to drag a creature out of the graveyard and straight onto the battlefield, no strings attached. Foretell reshapes the payment schedule rather than the timing: exile it face down early for , and the reanimation drops to later, splitting the outlay between two turns and hiding the spell from a hand-checking opponent until you commit. It stays a sorcery either way, so this is about cash flow, not surprise: bank the setup cost on a slow turn and cash it in on a turn you would otherwise come up a mana short. The Elf clause decides which shell the card belongs in. Return an Elf and you also mint two 1/1 green Elf Warrior tokens, folding the recursion into a go-wide tribal plan rather than a pure fatty-reanimation package. That rider is the whole reason this exists as a five-cost sorcery instead of a leaner Zombify-style reanimator: black graveyard recursion tuned to reward a creature type rather than raw power, with the foretell split doing the work that keeps it from reading as an overpriced put-it-onto-the-battlefield effect with a tribal bonus taped on.