Trystan's Command

Six mana buys you two of four modes, and the two-of-four cap is where this modal sorcery earns its keep: the four lines reach across nearly every axis a Golgari deck operates on, but no single cast hands you the whole toolbox. Copy an Elf you control to double a triggered engine, dig one or two permanent cards out of the graveyard, destroy a creature or enchantment, or pump a player's board by +3/+3 and untap it for the swing back. Any pairing is a fair rate; the design's whole argument is forcing you to leave two behind. Sorcery speed is the real tax. Blue and white takes on this template have often resolved at instant speed to ambush combat or answer a spell on the stack, but this one commits on your own turn, which recasts the pump-and-untap line as an alpha-strike finisher rather than a combat trick. The recursion mode is the quiet backbone: returning permanent cards, not just creatures, lets it reclaim a fallen Elf lord to recast next turn or rebuy an enchantment the destroy line elsewhere on the card is meant to answer. This is a build-around's payoff, not a fair-deck staple, rewarding a stocked graveyard and a wide Elf board with more per cast than any one of the four lines suggests in isolation.