Pull from the Grave

Black's recursion has historically been rationed. Raise Dead buys back one creature and asks nothing else; Gravedigger staples the effect to a body but caps you at a single target; the double-return builds tend to load on drawbacks or restrict what you can grab. This one splits the difference cleanly: two creatures for three mana, no clause about type or size, plus a small life buffer on top. The life gain is the tell that this is a fair, attritional card rather than a combo enabler: two points does not enable a loop, but it pads the race in a grind where you are already trading resources one-for-one and just want to keep refueling. The real strategic weight lives in the "up to two" flexibility. Against a deck picking apart your board it refills two slots of your hand at once and swings a long war of attrition; when you only have one target worth returning, it downgrades to a slightly overpriced single-recursion that still nets the life. That elasticity is the point of the design: it never rots in hand because the floor is always a playable card, and the ceiling only shows up once you have fed the graveyard enough to make both slots count. A sorcery-speed rebuy engine for a color that wins by outlasting.