Gravewaker

Reanimation with a metered tax instead of a discount. Where the classic Reanimator plan is to cheat one oversized body onto the battlefield early and win off the tempo swing, this pays retail every single time: to pull a creature back, layered on top of the six mana you already sank into the body. That inversion turns a one-shot cost-cheat into a grinding value loop. There is no tap symbol on the ability and no once-per-turn clause, so with enough lands you can reanimate two or three creatures across a single turn; the price per activation, not an artificial cap, is what keeps the loop from running away. The tapped clause does the disciplining work: each returned creature sits out the turn it arrives, unable to attack, block, or feed an untap-based tempo swing, which drains the explosiveness out of the design and steers it toward inevitability. A dedicated shell built on Animate Dead or Reanimate wants to break the rate wide open on turn two; this asks you to live into the late game and then bury the opponent under a recurring stream of bodies, returned at instant speed if you leave the mana up. The 5/5 flier is the clock that buys time while you stock a graveyard worth dipping into: a threat the opponent has to answer before the engine ever comes online. Reanimation for the long game, where the cost is the plan rather than the obstacle.