Shrouded Lore

Recursion that hands your opponent the scissors. Most graveyard-retrieval spells let the caster pick the prize; this one inverts the control entirely, asking the opponent to choose what comes back while you decide how many times to keep paying black mana to overrule them. The structure is a haggling loop: each you spend forces the opponent to point at a different card, peeling away their least-bad option until the last card standing is the one you actually wanted. Only you can stop the bidding, by accepting whatever they have left on the table. The design prices a tutor by drainage rather than by a fixed cost: a graveyard stocked with redundant pieces neuters the opponent's leverage, because every choice they make is a card you are happy to take, while a yard with one standout target makes them dig you toward it one painful mana at a time. The effect turns graveyard size into a resource the opponent must wade through, rewarding a player who has flooded the yard with interchangeable value over one hoarding a single bomb. The whole thing runs at sorcery speed, so there is no instant-window trickery; the tension lives entirely in the back-and-forth of the bid.