General Leo Cristophe

The reanimation clause here is deliberately clipped: mana value 3 or less, one target, no exile safety valve on the returned creature. That ceiling keeps the effect firmly in the value tier rather than the game-ending one, favoring a graveyard stocked with small, high-utility creatures (mana dorks, sacrifice fodder, enters-the-battlefield engines) over a single haymaker to loop. What separates this from the standard small-creature reanimator is how the second half feeds off the first: the +1/+1 counters scale with your whole board, and the returned creature is already counted by the time they land. On a developed battlefield a 2/2 swells into a genuine threat the same turn it arrives, which reframes the effect from a value piece into a payoff for having gone wide before it hits the table. It sits in a long line of white recursion built around modest bodies rather than fatties, the tradition of Sun Titan and Reveillark, but tilts the reward toward token and aristocrat shells where the counter count runs highest. The tension is between its two jobs: it wants a full graveyard for the recursion and a full battlefield for the counters, and the decks that satisfy both at once are the ones this was built to reward.