The Spot, Living Portal

Oblivion Ring taught white a specific bargain: banish a threat now, and if the ring ever leaves, the threat comes back. This rebuilds that bargain as a body, then narrows the leash to a single trigger word. The arrival banishes two things in one motion, a nonland permanent on the board and a nonland permanent card sitting in a graveyard, so one deployment can strip a blocker and deny a recursion target simultaneously. What makes it a lease rather than a purchase is that the return clause fires only when he dies. Bounce him, exile him, flicker him, and the cards stay gone; the loop breaks quietly and the theft becomes permanent. That asymmetry is the entire strategic axis. Killing him is the play that refunds the exiled cards to their owners, so an opponent staring at their own permanent locked away has every incentive to attack into him or trade for him, which is exactly what hands the property back. Leaving him alive keeps the theft in force but leaves a 4/4 swinging in. For the controller, the same combat math cuts both ways: whatever keeps him on the battlefield keeps the exile intact, and the turn he trades away, everything he took goes back to whoever owned it. Every deployment is a wager on either protecting him or closing the game before the bill comes due.