Fix What's Broken

Traditional reanimation targets a single fat threat: you pay the price, you get back the biggest thing in the yard. This does something stranger. The X here is not a ceiling you push toward but a plane you slice through, hitting every artifact and creature at exactly that mana value at once, and nothing else. Set X to three and a graveyard full of two-drops and four-drops stays inert while a wall of three-cost bodies (and whatever three-mana artifacts happen to be sitting there) walks back in. That precision is the whole design problem it solves and creates: it rewards a deck that has clustered its important cards at one number, and it punishes a scattered curve by leaving most of the yard behind. The life payment scales with that number, so the ambitious lines (returning a stack of five-drops) cost a real chunk of your total, which is the tension that stops this from being a strictly-better reanimation spell. Layer in artifacts and it stops being a creature spell at all: an X of zero drags back every Ornithopter, every Lotus Petal, every zero-cost trinket in the bin for no life at all. The name is doing honest work. This is a repair job, a spell that surveys the wreckage of a graveyard and restores one specific layer of it, and its power lives entirely in how well you built the wreckage.