Entreat the Dead

Miracle exists to reward the top-of-deck coincidence, and grafting it onto a mass-reanimation spell is one of the more perverse pairings the mechanic has produced. The full cost, , is the honest price: to bring back four creatures you pay the X twice, which puts the sorcery in the range of true late-game payoff spells. The miracle cost, , quietly deletes one of those X payments, so the same four-body reanimation that would have cost you eleven mana can be had for far less if the card is the first you draw that turn. That is the tension the whole design turns on: you are not building around casting it, you are building around drawing it at the right moment, which means shuffle effects, top-deck manipulation, and end-step draw all become setup rather than filler. The reanimation targets creature cards specifically, so this is a payoff for a graveyard already stocked with bodies, and while X can be set to one, it rewards a full board most. Reanimator has always faced the same math problem: the spell that returns everything costs everything. Miracle is the loophole, converting a randomly timed draw into a discount steep enough that the swing arrives a turn or two before the table is braced for it.