MTG Salvation

Superior cycling may actually have a place in a control deck somewhere in standard. Will keep an eye on this card.

Not necessarily. The card this is competing with for slots is Omen of the Sea, and this card has some distinct advantages. Three distinct advantages are: Put into hand vs draw, activated ability vs cast, and put one into graveyard vs scry 2. Standard will see this in an environment briefly with both Teferi, Time Raveler and Narset, Parter of Veils being legal. An opponent's T3f causes you to cast Omen at sorcery speed, Narset causes you to cast it on the opponent's turn to get the card draw, and with both on the field Omen is essentially a dead card.

"Whate Whale" ignores the planeswalker passives entirely. As you've mentioned, it does have great benefit with reanimator strategies, functioning as both grave filling and a reanimation target. As for control decks, it pairs nicely with Elspeth Conquers Death, able to put itself/planeswalkers into the graveyard in time for Chapter 3 to go off.

I'm looking forward to slotting it into my Jeskai Control build. The advantages Omen of the Sea has over this card is its interactivity with Shark Typhoon for cranking out 2/2's, being a legal target for Narset, Parter of Veils and bouncing it with T3f in fringe cases. However, Narset of the Ancient Way will pack much more of a kick with these. Although, with the reprinting of Baneslayer Angel it may be time to trim down on Typhoons and ditch Narset, with the impending rotation coming.

At 2 mana this is hardly superior cycling though.

I think you only want this if you want to put stuff in the graveyard and specifically a (big) creature. A good card for living end for example.