Urborg Repossession

For a single black, this is unadorned creature recursion with a small life gain attached, the sort of rate black has offered since Raise Dead first appeared. What separates it from that lineage is the green kicker. Pay the additional and the effect widens: instead of pulling back one creature card, you also return a second permanent of any type from your graveyard, whether that is a land, an artifact, an enchantment, or a planeswalker. The split follows how the two colors have always divided their recursion. Black keeps the creature half, the part it has owned since Raise Dead, while green supplies the reach into the rest of the yard. The two life keeps the base mode from reading as a plain Raise Dead, a modest sweetener that costs the design nothing and gives the spell a reason to exist in a mono-black shell. What makes the kicker unusual is that the green never becomes a deckbuilding commitment. The card functions fully as a one-drop in black and simply does more when a second color is available, so a green splash is rewarded without ever being required. That is a quieter application of kicker than the scaling-ramp payoffs the mechanic is best known for: the second color enriches the spell rather than gating it, and the base mode stands on its own with no green in sight.