Rishadan Pawnshop
Most rescue effects answer removal by returning a permanent to hand; this one buries it somewhere the opponent cannot follow. The distinction is the destination. Bouncing to hand already strips counters and drops auras, so that is not the trick. What tucking into a randomized library does that a bounce cannot is put the permanent fully out of reach: no discard can strip it, no graveyard recursion can claim it, no exile-based removal can target it. A permanent sitting in your hand is still a card a discard spell can attack. A permanent shuffled into your deck is gone until you draw or dig for it, and that is the price of safety. The randomization cuts both ways: a creature in hand is one cast away from firing its enters-the-battlefield trigger again, while a shuffled creature has to be found before it can do anything at all. So this is no tempo engine; the activation cost is steep enough that it behaves as an answer, a colorless insurance policy any deck can field to protect a key piece or launder a permanent out of a doomed position. The nontoken restriction is the honest fine print: a token shuffled away simply ceases to exist, and the wording refuses to pretend otherwise. It reads like a parlor trick and works like an escape hatch.
