For me, Im only casting it with X equal to five or greater unless Im in a pretty dire circumstance, since returning the creature is the more compelling part of the equation
Avalanche Caller can animate your snow lands into 4/4 elementals, while Boreal Outrider makes your creatures enter with a +1/+1 counter if snow mana was used to cast them
Supportive Parents I mean, youd never aim a Murder at this right
A: When something adds mana to your mana pool, you have to spend it by the end of the current phase, otherwise you get mana burn, and lose life for all unspent mana
Grumgully, the Generous is probably the most obvious example: we make Spirits, they auto-get a +1/+1 counter, and therefore they'll get more because they're modified