Reanimator

by Recurring_Memories on 11 November 2012

Main Deck (58 cards)

Sideboard (19 cards)


Instants (2)


Artifacts (2)


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Deck Description

A "casual" Reanimator deck. It's powerful, but it's mostly to play against my friends top decks which also run annoying/screw you cards.

The "sideboard" serves two purposes;
1) Alternate creatures depending on whose deck I'm playing (like a real sideboard).
2) It gives me a place to store additional cards to turn this into a slightly more casual combo/multi-player deck on the fly which stops me from having to buy multiple play sets of expensive cards.

Deck Tags

  • Graveyard

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Reanimator

1. why are there only 58 cards in your main deck?
2. you noted in the forum that you know that you're sideboard isnt legal. you're main deck isnt (legacy) legal either though, mental mistep is banned (just something you have to remember if you ever want to take this deck to a tournament)
3. is there a particular reason you dont run Brainstorm? Granted, Careful Study is a must have in reanimator and lim-dûl's vault certainly has it's place as well but so does Brainstorm. As an instant it gives you the opportunity to save a blue mana for Spell Pierce and use it at the end of your opponent's turn for Brainstorm. Additionally it let's you "hid" cards on top of your library in response to your opponent's discard spells. last but not least, combined with a fetch land it let's you get rid of "dead" hand cards such as Living Death in the early game
4. Angel of Despair used to be common in reanimator decks but nowadays there are better choices such as Terastodon, Angel of Serenity (or combined with fetch lands potentially Admonition Angel) or my personal favorite Tidespout Tyrant
5. personally, i prefer Animate Dead to Exhume as it gives you access to your opponent's graveyard, doesnt come with a disadvantage vs reanimator / dredge decks and is bouncable with Tidespout Tyrant but that's a matter of personal flavour
6. why do you run Phyrexian Tower? I dont see any creature you would want to sacrifce (or is this just your way of dealing with Bridge from Below?)
7. Except Careful Study, i dont see any way you can discard creatures. Hence there is the risk that they get stuck on your hand - the only place you dont want them to be. You'd consider Putrid Imp or Hapless Researcher to increase your discard options. Additionally they are decend turn 1 blockers which you could sac for Phyrexian Tower

finally: if you're looking for additional ideas, you're more than welcome to check out my legacy b/u reanimator:
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=402456

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Posted 21 November 2012 at 13:08

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