Graceful Restoration

Reanimation with a curve built into it. The two modes answer opposite problems: the first is a single-target finisher, pulling back your best creature and stapling a permanent +1/+1 counter to it, so the returned body comes down slightly bigger than it left; the second is a value grind, buying back a pair of small utility creatures whose worth was never in their stats. That power-2-or-less clause on the second mode is the balancing lever. It gates the double-return to the exact creatures whose deaths were transactions rather than losses (aristocrat fodder, mana dorks, one-drop hatebears, anything with a death trigger or an enters-the-battlefield effect), so the card can rebuy an engine without ever cheating a bomb into play twice. The two-mode split is the design's whole argument: one line is for the deck that reanimates a single expensive threat, the other for the deck that recurs a web of cheap synergy pieces, and the same five mana serves both without one mode subsidizing the other. Where a card like Unburial Rites sells raw size for its cost, this one keeps its ceiling deliberately low and spends the saved power budget on flexibility, which is why it reads as a toolbox rather than a payoff.