Victor Timely, Wily Tycoon
Blue rarely gets to rebuy from the graveyard: recursion is white and black's department, and the color built to draw and copy almost never reuses what it discards. This villain edition of the time-traveling schemer sidesteps that convention by granting a single free cast from the yard on entry, restricted to artifact, instant, or sorcery cards of mana value four or less and shipped with a built-in exile clause so a spell that would return to the yard cannot be looped a second time. That exile is the balancing act: it turns the trigger into a one-shot detonation rather than an engine, which is why the effect can afford to be free. The mana-value cap keeps the pool honest too (no game-ending seven-drop artifacts, no extra-turn chains hauled out of the bin), pointing the card at the mid-range spells blue actually mills, discards, or self-loots away: a cheap sweeper, a mana rock, an artifact creature to redeploy, a burst-draw sorcery. The design coheres because it asks for graveyard setup rather than rewarding it passively: you want the right spell already sitting in the yard when this resolves, which nudges toward the self-mill and looting blue does happily anyway. Note the timing wrinkle: the free cast happens as the trigger resolves, so the target has to be something whose targeting requirements are legal at that moment.
