Unmake the Graves

Convoke is the lever that turns a clunky recursion spell into something a creature deck actually wants to cast. Returning two creature cards from the graveyard to hand has always been priced as a luxury, a 2-for-1 in the lineage of cards like Macabre Waltz that asks you to skip a turn's development to afford it. Here the bodies you already have on board pay the bill: a wide board can buy back its fallen members for next to nothing. The instant speed is where the design gets clever. Cast this on the opponent's turn, end of their turn ideally, and the creatures you tapped to convoke it untap on your upkeep, so the spell costs you almost nothing in tempo. That timing rewards a creature-heavy shell rather than a control one, because the discount only exists if you have committed to the board the spell is meant to refill. Returning the cards to hand rather than the battlefield draws the line short of reanimation: you get the army back, but you still have to recast it, so it comes home at a tax instead of slamming straight down. There is no awkward restriction clause bolted on because the creatures themselves are the restriction; the army pays for its own resurrection. Recursion built for the go-wide deck that keeps losing its board and wants it back cheaply, at the moment that costs the least.