Vedalken Dismisser

Tucking a creature onto the top of its owner's library is a softer answer than killing it, and the body strapped to that effect makes the trade-off plain: a 2/2 that costs as much as a finisher, buying back a tempo swing measured in a single draw step. Against a real permanent threat, putting it on top of the library costs the opponent one turn (they redraw it next draw step) while you set up, which lands this firmly in the bin of effects that read as removal but function as delay. The notable exception is tokens: a token put into a library never returns, because it ceases to exist as a state-based action the moment it leaves the battlefield, so against a token the trip up the deck is hard removal rather than a stall. The Vedalken-as-tinkerers flavor lines up with the gesture of returning a creature to the place it came from, and that is most of what the card is doing. Where the on-top-of-library line earns its keep is against permanents that are expensive to recast or that you want stranded off the battlefield for a turn; everywhere else, a clean bounce-to-hand effect at half the cost does more, faster. This belongs to an era that leaned on six-mana commons and uncommons carrying a single enters trigger, before bodies doing this kind of work got pushed down the curve. As a piece of that lineage, it is a fair, unremarkable midrange role-player whose ceiling tops out at a turn of breathing room.