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CardName: Replace Soul Cost: 2W Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it has a converted mana cost 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield instead. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Xianlu Common |
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IMO this could pretty easily cost just
(Claim // Fame, Timely Hordemate, Proclamation of Rebirth, etc).
Obvious redflag change but hopefully should differentiate it a bit from Seeing Spectres and Tomb Wanderer. Honestly feels a bit more black, but I think it can be stretched to white.
Well, I've been thinking for a while that maybe white should get Disentomb effects (Appointed Return) and black should only get cards that return straight from grave to battlefield. Returning to hand IMO matches the reincarnation/rapture flavor as in "return to your maker". These Unearth cards are derived from white's weenies theme so it comes from a rather mechanical perspective. I mean, it's fine, but I don't find it inspiring or anything.
It's a bit of a dilemma. I like your interpretation of white Raise Dead as "return to your maker", but I also love playing around with white reanimation shenanigans like Rally the Ancestors, Return to the Ranks, and Reveillark. I think this new version satisfies both itches quite nicely, but yeah, I don't particularly need this to wow anyone or inspire people to create a deck - it's a role-filler for a deck with minor combo potential. I do want to put Reflex on this, though...
2 or less -> 3 or less. Universal change.