Artisan of Kozilek

The reanimation clause is the part that earns this card a deck instead of just a turn. Most colorless giants of the Annihilator era cast as a wall of stats and a clock; this one cashes in on the graveyard you filled while ramping toward it, dragging back whatever you discarded, milled, or sacrificed on the way up. The return triggers on cast, not on entering the battlefield, which means it resolves even if the spell itself gets countered: the recursion happens off the cast going on the stack, so the 10/9 body is almost a bonus stacked on top of the value. That timing is the load-bearing design. It turns the card into a payoff for the entire ramp-and-dig shell rather than a standalone piece of top-end, and it rewards anything that wants creatures in the bin: discard outlets, self-mill, sacrifice fodder you would happily get back as the giant's escort. Annihilator 2 does the rest, stripping two permanents the first time it swings and forcing the defending player to decide what to keep before a single point of damage lands. Among the colorless behemoths that introduced this keyword, it is built to repay a graveyard rather than an empty board and a fast count.