Stitch Together

Two black mana to bring a creature back to hand is a fair-enough rate, but the threshold clause turns it into one of the cleanest reanimation spells of its era: once seven cards have piled into the graveyard, the same sorcery puts the creature directly onto the battlefield for the same cost. The distinction is everything. Reanimator decks live and die on getting a fat threat into play cheaply, and most of the genre pays in life (Animate Dead, Reanimate) or tempo (Exhume, Necromancy). This pays in graveyard count, which is precisely the resource a Reanimator deck is already accumulating: dumping a bomb with a discard outlet fills the yard toward threshold while it sets up the target. The result is a payoff that costs nothing extra to enable, because the act of loading the graveyard and the act of meeting threshold are the same act. The downside is honest. Below seven cards it is a glorified Disturbed Burial that hands you the creature rather than casting it, useless on the turns when a Reanimator deck is still digging. Threshold spells across this design generation tended to scale a single effect by a magnitude; this one switches effects entirely, from a hand-return to a battlefield-cheat, and that binary jump is what makes it a build-around rather than a value spell.