Entreat the Angels

Miracle turns the draw step into a moment of information, and few cards weaponized that variance more brutally than a sorcery that manufactures an army from nothing. The hard cast is a spell you would almost never run on its own terms: paying for a swarm of 4/4 fliers only pays off at totals high enough to flood the board. That deliberate overpricing is the design, not a flaw in it. The card is built to be a bad deal when you choose to cast it, so that it can be devastating when fortune deals it off the top instead. Reveal it at the top of your draw and the cost collapses to its miracle line, ; the gap between those two numbers is the entire reason the card exists. The wrinkle worth dwelling on is that X is paid at cast time regardless of which cost you use, so even the miracle trigger builds a real army rather than a token gesture: an empty board becomes a wall of flying beaters before combat. The miracle cost still charges you the full X, one for each Angel, so the size of that army tracks the mana you have available the moment the card flips. That is what lets it serve as both a desperate stabilizer and a finisher off a single honest beat of information, the flip as the card leaves your library.