Valgavoth's Faithful

A one-drop that is really a delayed reanimation spell wearing a body. The 1/1 does almost nothing on the front of the card; its whole reason to exist is the sacrifice, which fires only at sorcery speed and returns any creature card, not just something small or something you paid for. That structure is the tell: this is reanimation priced across two turns instead of one, spread out so it can slip into a black deck that wants a cheap early body, a sacrifice trigger, and a late-game recursion outlet in a single card. The self-sacrifice is the quiet efficiency here. You are not spending a separate creature to fuel it, and the graveyard target can be a creature that died earlier in the same game or one you deliberately discarded, so the card doubles as its own enabler for anything that rewards death triggers or wants a specific big threat back on the battlefield. What holds the rate down is the sorcery-speed clause and the total investment: five mana across the card's life, no instant-speed ambush, no chaining without more copies. It is reanimation for decks that would rather pay in installments than commit five mana in one turn to a single powerful return.