Surrakar Banisher
Most bounce-on-entry creatures leave the target wide open; this one insists on a single qualifier that bends the whole effect. The creature you return has to be tapped, and since blockers stay untapped, that rules out the obvious aggressive line of clearing a defender to push damage through. What it can grab is something that has already committed: a creature still tapped from attacking last turn, a tapped mana dork, anything an opponent spent and could not untap. That makes it a punishing answer rather than a proactive tempo play, and the sorcery-speed window matters: with no flash, this lands on your own turn and reaches across to whatever the opponent left tapped. Five mana is the honest price for a bounce bundled with a fair-sized blue beater, where Man-o'-War folds the same trick into a leaner, free-targeting three-mana body. The tapped clause is what separates them: it trades the freedom to bounce anything for an effect that only fires once an opponent has overextended into a turn with their threats tapped down. Read that way, the restriction is less a tax than a sequencing constraint, rewarding patience and converting an opponent's committed tempo into your own. It is a clean demonstration of how one word in the targeting clause can redirect an effect's entire strategic posture without touching anything else on the template.
