Sanguine Indulgence

The clever part is where the discount hides. Raise the Dead has been black's baseline for a decade of similar effects: pay a little, buy back a body. What this design does is double the payload and then tie the price to a lifegain trigger already present in the decks that want it. Meet the threshold and the whole thing collapses to a single black mana for two creatures out of the yard, which is a rate that would be unprintable without a gate in front of it. The gate is the point: three life gained this turn is trivial in an aristocrats or lifedrain shell where the graveyard is already the resource base, and nearly impossible to hit incidentally anywhere else. That specificity is what keeps the reduction honest. Cast it cold and you have paid four mana for a slow, unexciting recursion sorcery; cast it inside the engine it was built for and you have refueled the whole board for the price of a Dark Ritual you never made. It rewards sequencing the lifegain before the reanimation rather than after, since the discount checks life gained earlier in the same turn. A design that reads as a bulk recursion spell to anyone outside its home archetype and as a near-free two-for-one to anyone inside it.