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Ghastly Conscription | Illustration by YW Tang Manifest and manifest dread are MTG mechanics that put a face-down card from various zones onto the battlefield as a 2/2 creature

Reanimate between 1 and 20 total mana value worth of creatures from any graveyard and hope you roll well on a 7 drop is just about silly enough to consider in some graveyard recursion decks

I know Id buy a box of New Phyrexia or Lorwyn for aesthetic purposes alone if I had the resources

Mana dorks are perfect for this

It also keeps Hydro-Man safe from sorcery-speed removal and board wipes, though it removes it as a blocker, so theres some trade-off for your forbidden blue ramp