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Jeremy Crawford, 5e rules designer addressed a related question on Twitter with this unofficial ruling: Another FB group question. Fighter dies from death tyrant, raised as zombie, killed, revivify w/in 1 min, does that work? If you cast revivify on a zombie, the creature returns as a zombie. The spell doesn't change creature type.
The spell revivify returns a creature to life "that has died within the last minute." [PHB 272] [PHB 272] The spell gentle repose "effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don't count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead ."
If revivify can free trapped souls, then it is a secret effect of the spell nowhere to be found in the spell’s description, that isn’t even explicitly mentioned anywhere else, that can only be inferred from the text of other spells that do mention a requirement that the target’s soul be free.
The time limit is the maximum amount of time you have to cast this after the character dies—for example, you can't cast Revivify once one minute has passed after the character's died. Note that Bards have access to the Magical Secrets class feature, which lets them learn any of these spells not listed under the Bard class.
It seems in multiple articles the argument is that since there is a time limit for Revivify the ;'soul' of the creature is still travelling and Revivify lassos the soul back into the Body. I think that there are many places that game features do repeat, purely for convenience of reading, an already-established rule.
The only restriction on revivify is that it can't revive a character who has died of old age, and the effect of Strength Drain doesn't match that. Revivify's only other effect is to set the creature's hit points to 1; it doesn't affect any other game statistics, so the creature will still have a Strength of 0 until they take a short or long rest.
Given the following two facts, through a strict RAW reading (a DM of course can and likely should handwave this issue), is a typical corpse a valid target of Revivify? Creatures are Objects. Revi...
Side note: Contingency is a level 6 Wizard spell, Revivify is a level 3 Cleric/Paladin spell. As such, the only official ways to get this combination of spells without multiclassing inefficiently is by being a level 14+ Bard or by being a level 17+ Arcana Cleric (Sword Coast book).
Raise dead, which is more potent than revivify, expounds on this, saying: This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn't restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival--its head, for instance--the spell automatically fails. So Raise Dead and Revivify would both fail.
The text for Revivify requires "diamonds worth 300gp, which the spell consumes." But the only diamond I was able to find was under Treasure in the DMG, and a single diamond is worth 5,000gp. Is the only way to cast revivify by spending a 5,000gp diamond on a 300gp spell, or am I missing something?