String of Disappearances

Bounce spells are usually a closed transaction between two players, but this one hands the second player a live decision that can ricochet back at you. The base line is a single-target return at the cheapest possible rate; the wrinkle is that the bounced creature's controller can spend two blue to copy the spell and aim the copy anywhere, including back at your own board, and that copy carries the same offer forward. A single casting can therefore chain from player to player: each new target's controller may pay to keep the string going, redirecting the next bounce at some other creature on any battlefield. What makes the design sing is that the initiative passes down the line: you fire the spell, but you do not decide where the string ends. It rewards political persuasion in a way most blue tempo never bothers with, since the "may" clauses let each player weigh their own swing before the chain continues, and the mana tax means every extra link is a real cost someone chose to pay. Left as a one-shot, it is a slightly worse Unsummon that occasionally lets an opponent move something of yours if they pony up. Used deliberately, it becomes a negotiation device: a way to save an ally's blocker, re-trigger an ETB creature across the table, or seed a board someone else has to untangle at instant speed. The friction here is social rather than mechanical, which is a rare thing to bury inside an instant this cheap.