Unhallowed Pact
Most reanimation answers a creature's death by returning it for its original controller. This one rewrites the destination. Latch it onto a creature and the next time that card dies, it comes back under your control rather than its owner's (ownership never changes, but control does, which is enough to flip a threat across the board). Kill spells, chump blocks, sacrifice fodder, even an opponent's own removal aimed at their threat all become handoffs. The trap is patient: the Aura sits inertly on a creature you may not want kept alive, waiting for the inevitable. The cost of that theft is precise, the creature has to die while still enchanted, so an opponent who exiles, bounces, or simply refuses to engage with the marked threat walks free. Cast on your own creature it functions as cheap insurance, a single return that shrugs off the first piece of spot removal. Pointed at an opponent's, it becomes a slow-motion Control Magic that resolves only once they decide the creature has to go, which is exactly the decision a cautious player is most reluctant to make. The design does not prevent death; it monetizes it, taxing a player for treating their best creature as expendable and turning every removal answer into a fork: leave the threat alive, or hand it to the enchanter.
