March from the Tomb

Mass reanimation almost never gets to specify a creature type, and that restriction is exactly what pays for the generosity here. Most batch-return effects (Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding, the various "return all creatures" spells) treat the graveyard as undifferentiated; this one narrows the pool to a single tribe and then loosens the leash, letting you rebuild an entire board in one cast rather than recurring a single body. The total-mana-value cap of 8 is the lever that keeps it from being a free-for-all: it rewards a wide, cheap curve over a single fat threat, so the spell is at its best returning four or five small Allies whose value lived in their enters-the-battlefield triggers and rally synergies rather than in their stats. That makes it less a finisher than a reload button, turning a swept board into a worse position for the opponent than the sweep should have left. The tension built into the design is real: it is a five-mana sorcery that does nothing without a stocked graveyard and a deck built around one creature type, a steep deckbuilding tax for an effect that, in the wrong shell, returns nothing at all. But aimed at a tribe whose individual pieces are worth more reassembled than discarded, few bulk-recursion spells ever printed for a single creature type do the job this cleanly.