I want people to be able to reanimate fatties, and currently that strategy is lacking. The symmetrical animate dead effects really hurt the deck when played against it. I think reanimate has enough of a downside in the life loss, and necromancy is expensive enough that there is some draft contention around them, but animate dead is maybe just too good in that role, it's so easy to pick in any deck playing black and maybe creatures.

Virtue of Persistence is both removal early, and lets the reanimator deck go big with seven lands or some other way to cheat on mana, so that seems cool. It also can't be recurred if you can't cast the second half, which makes it less pickable by decks that aren't going big.

Stern Scolding is a similar role player here, that just lets go big decks interact a little earlier.

Birds of Paradise is of course the coolest card in magic, but Gilded Goose does way more things here. It gains life against aggro, it makes an artifact for welder, it still makes one mana of any color, and it dies to pings less often.