Sepulchral Primordial
Where this Avatar sits in the line of seven-mana value engines is the part worth dwelling on: this is mass graveyard theft scaled to the table, lifting the best creature from each opponent's graveyard at once. A duel hands you a single body; the more opponents you face, the more the trigger swells, which makes it a creature built for the long, grindy multiplayer game rather than one-on-one. The intimidate keeps the 5/4 relevant on the attack: a black creature here can only be blocked by another black creature or an artifact creature, a narrow enough slice that it tends to push damage through, though the keyword stays on its own body and does nothing for the creatures it steals. The targeting is generous in a way this era's reanimation rarely was. "Up to one" per opponent means you are never forced to grab a death-trigger liability you do not want, and the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves clean, with no sacrifice clause, no end-step return, no exile cost attached. It is reanimation as a board-state swing rather than a single-target raise, pulling bodies onto your side while subtracting nothing from your own graveyard. The design has aged into a clean political engine that does exactly what a wide table rewards: the wider the game, the bigger the heist.
