Skip your draw step.
You may cast nonland cards from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Ideally, I would want this to be a white card, but this probably is more black/green or white/black/green territory.
At the end of the day Abandoned Sarcophagus shows, that this effect isn't necessarily too strongly tied to any color. On the other hand Hedonist's Trove indicates black.
In terms of CMC, would such an effect be fair at 3-4 CMC?
You are basically describing a permanent based Yawgmoth's Will. Yawgmoth's Will is currently banned in legacy and restricted in vintage as one of the most powerful cards in magic as a 2B Sorcery. You'd be looking at around 7 CMC to be reasonable would be my guess.
It's yawgmoth's will. But a permanent rather than a one shot. Yawgmoth's will is one of the most broken cards ever printed, easily on par with the P9.
We're talking about a 6cc enchantment here, and one that has more requirements/drawbacks than what you put it ("skip your draw step" is negligible), like saccing a creature whenever you cast a spell. Written as-is without any other requirements/drawbacks, likely it has no fair cost, since simply increasing the cost means it will cheated into play (academy rector, show and tell, etc.)
Nowadays, this effect would probably be UB. The black part is "skip your draw step," "You may cast creature cards from your graveyard," and "If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead." The blue part is "You may cast noncreature, nonland cards from your graveyard."
Looking at it, this definitely was too ambitious of an effect. How would this toned down version fare?
Skip your draw step.
You may cast creature cards from your graveyard. When you do, they are a spirit in addition to their other types.
Whenever a spirit you control dies, exile it.
This could be further restricted to only allowing you to cast CMC2/CMC3 or less creatures. Essentially it would be an ongoing Breath of Life/Reveilark/black necromancy effect, but only once (unless you jump through a few hoops), aligning it more with white flavour, while bleeding the color pie a bit if put in mono-white (but calling it "redemption", would at least keep it within white's philosophical territory).
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You may cast nonland cards from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Ideally, I would want this to be a white card, but this probably is more black/green or white/black/green territory.
At the end of the day Abandoned Sarcophagus shows, that this effect isn't necessarily too strongly tied to any color. On the other hand Hedonist's Trove indicates black.
In terms of CMC, would such an effect be fair at 3-4 CMC?
We're talking about a 6cc enchantment here, and one that has more requirements/drawbacks than what you put it ("skip your draw step" is negligible), like saccing a creature whenever you cast a spell. Written as-is without any other requirements/drawbacks, likely it has no fair cost, since simply increasing the cost means it will cheated into play (academy rector, show and tell, etc.)
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
I would probably cost this around 6, perhaps 4UB.
Skip your draw step.
You may cast creature cards from your graveyard. When you do, they are a spirit in addition to their other types.
Whenever a spirit you control dies, exile it.
This could be further restricted to only allowing you to cast CMC2/CMC3 or less creatures. Essentially it would be an ongoing Breath of Life/Reveilark/black necromancy effect, but only once (unless you jump through a few hoops), aligning it more with white flavour, while bleeding the color pie a bit if put in mono-white (but calling it "redemption", would at least keep it within white's philosophical territory).