thanks! I'm going to tweak it around, trying to get it more reliable. Thinking 4x Lord, Baron, Warchief, Reaper, Soulless One. Then subtracting some things...
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I might go with a torture from shadowmoor, it's relatively cheap and can be used to put counters in the bank in case you need a fate transfer later. That, or just add some basic equipment to make those counters stack up higher.
Thanks! I moved a few beacons and zombify off and made room. Frankly, I'm scared of the life cost of reanimate but I s'pose it's worth it for godsire at turn 2 with putrid imp out on turn one... I think i know how animate dead works, had to read into it a bit.
Agreed on gnarled effigy too slow. It costs four to cast, then 4 to use when you could be doing more useful things with those four. It also only adds on counter. I've used it too, it's just nothing compared to incremental blight. At an almost 1-to-1 mana to -1/-1 counter ratio, it could be said it's nearly four times better than the effigy's 4-to-1. 8-to-1 if you count it's casting cost for the first counter.