Revenge of the Drowned
Tempo dressed as removal, or removal dressed as tempo: the choice is the design, though the choice is not yours. Bouncing a creature to the top or bottom of its owner's library is a familiar blue effect, but here the owner picks which end, and that inversion is the honest tension in the card. You cannot bury a threat under the whole deck yourself, so a sensible opponent almost always chooses the top and simply recasts it a turn later, having lost only a draw step. Neither outcome answers anything permanently. You have spent four mana at instant speed to buy a turn against a creature that survives. What pays for that turn is the decayed Zombie left behind, a body that trades away its blocking rights and its longevity for one guaranteed swing. It nudges the spell from pure reset toward proactive tempo, giving you a clock to press while the opponent rebuilds what you tucked away. Decayed is the discipline: the token is priced to be a temporary edge, not a durable one, which keeps a four-mana instant from doubling as both interaction and a lasting threat. Read it as a tempo swing with a splash of graveyard synergy attached, best when the turn you buy is a turn you already know how to use.
