Hey guys so i have a Kozilek and Norde of Notions deck right now. For my next deck i would like a deck based off the graveyard. Preferably not one from a preconstructed deck. I think i would like a fair Plasm deck but not totally sure. What suggestions do you guys have for a reanimator deck?
Any BRU general. Actually Nekusar may be interesting, he could make any wheel effect into extra damage.
Black = Reanimate
Blue/Red = Efficiently move cards from library to GY
You could run a different third color but red also gives you HASTE by the barrel which is so clutch in reanimator. White creatures, overall (including mixed ones like BW/WR/etc) are the best reanimation targets (IMO) but after playing BWR reanimator for a while I've come to the conclusion that in EDH the reanimator archetype needs Blue.
Your mileage may vary but that's my 2c.
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Kresh The Bloodbraided is fun due to all of the sacrificing shenanigans that can go on with him. Plus having red gives you access to Vicious Shadows, which can wreak havoc on a board with a way to recur creatures, which green and black just happen to do pretty well.
Easily The Mimeoplasm. Great colors for quickly dumping cards into the grave and your general is a reanimation spell. Check out the list in my signature.
With Ghave, Guru of Spores I use Champion of Stray Souls for mass reanimation. It's pretty sweet being able to turn my Saprolings into useful things like Eternal Witness and the like. Janky b/c Champion is expensive, but so cool to pull off. As far as pure reanimation goes, I'd go with the aforementioned Karador, Chainer or Mimeoplasm.
Karador and the Mimeoplasm seem the strongest to me as well and allow for tons of easy shenanigans. Which I hate, because I'm looking for a fun and interesting reanimator deck but both these commanders are already taken in our playgroup and I'm not a fan of mirrormatches x_O
Kaalia of the Vast.
1. She gives you a way to cheat fat into play from the command zone.
2. RWB has some of the most oppressive creatures. The fact that they are Angels, Demons, and Dragons helps.
3. BW gives you good tutors to get artifacts and enchantments - essential tools for reanimator.
4. R gives you the best destructive board wipes (reanimator likes these).
There are perhaps more splashy choices, and certainly more choices in three colors that people may like, but I really like Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord for reanimation. For one thing, he clearly wants to play with the yard. It affects how big he is, and he is a sac outlet himself. Black and green are excellent colors for reanimation and targets to be reanimated, giving you of course all of the best tutors and some great sac outlets and recursion/reanimation. He can be surprisingly explosive and powerful as well, and honestly is probably one of the most fun commanders I've played with.
Plus not a ton of people use him, which is nice when you sit down with people you don't usually play with. The way he directly interacts with the board, and the explosive outcomes that sometimes happen with him and several other creatures, can make him an extremely fun and interesting choice.
my choice is zur. love esper colors and he tutors all the useful enchantments out. animate dead, reanimate, dance of the dead plus he can be used as a normal zur commander as well
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I run a Karador deck that is oodles of fun. Would highly recommend largely that he prevents you from overextending, and is in the best colors for reanimation. Basically, it is a Rock Control deck that blows everything up constantly, until you are ready to win. Having access to Ashen Ride, Angel of Despair, Terastadon, Archon of Justice, Woodfall Primus, Mikeaeus, Karmic Guide, Reveillark, Survival of the Fittest, Living Death, etc, etc is glorious. Plus, since you have green, you can ramp. My deck is played very conservatively, usually I am the one to deal with all the other threats until I am the threat myself, then I win. Plus, being able to cast Karador for cheap is awesome, and the casting of a creature from the GY actually has some advantages over triggered abilities. Artisan of Kozilek for one (althought, I do not run him), and any other "when you cast a creature spell" style effects. Also, Greater Good FTW.
I'd say a 5 or 4 color general. You want to be able to get Grizzle, Sphinx of the steel wind and The big elephant in one graveyard, after all.
That feels a little too much like Legacy Reanimation, which is great for Legacy, but aside from Terastodon, Griselbrand is banned in this format and there are a lot of better choices than Sphinx (not that Sphinx is a bad card, but for this format?) I'd rather go, if I am trying to win quick, for more powerful options.
I'll weigh in with Oloro, though I like some of the other suggestions. Mimeoplasm is just an unpleasant card that leads to repetitive and/or unpleasant decks in my experience.
Chainer, dementia master is bonkers and gets better the more opponents you have. Mono black is fairly easy to build.
Aw, I was beaten to it. You really can't get more pure then Chainer, though Balthor the Defiled also makes a mean cycling death machine.
If you're not necessarily focused on creatures, then Glissa, the Traitor is great with artifacts, as is the Esper side with Sharuum or Sydri. Any of those can be quite potent with some powerful Artifact Creatures.
If you want to remain in the graveyard, but be more generally good, adaptive and recoverable, look into Bant colors. Between Sun Titan, Karmic Guide, Saffi Eriksdotter, Genesis, Eternal Witness, Archaeomancer, and all the blink, bounce, and ETB love, you get a stupidly powerful suite of all-purpose recovery, in the strongest ETB abuse colors. Nim Deathmantle also fits into any deck to abuse the recursion train.
Been playing Mimeoplasm forever now and I swear by it.
You get cantrips (Careful study, Thirst for knowledge, Forbidden alchemy) and counters with blue. As well as looters and lets not forget Jin-gixatis. Easily one of the best things to reanimate in the game.
I have a primer link in my sig with a full list cards for playing in reanimator and reasons to play Plasm over Karador.
Thd deck can be as crazy competitive as you'd like or whatever level you want. Enjoy
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I have played almost every reanimation general in Commander, and I personally think The Mimeoplasm is the best. You are in some of the best colors for cards in general and his reanimation is flexible in the fact that it is harder to hate him out as he can start feeding on the creatures in other graveyards pretty easily. I run him along Mesmeric Orb to make sure I have all the targets I could ever need in the event my graveyard gets slammed by removal.
I'm partial to Mimeo, Karador and Chainer. Mimeo has the added benefit of blue for more ways to dump to graveyard (and control) but Karador has access to more reanimation spells through white and some top notch creatures.
I don't think it's worth starting a new topic...Are there any more spells like Entomb and Buried Alive that let you dig creatures out of your library?
I'm partial to Mimeo, Karador and Chainer. Mimeo has the added benefit of blue for more ways to dump to graveyard (and control) but Karador has access to more reanimation spells through white and some top notch creatures.
I don't think it's worth starting a new topic...Are there any more spells like Entomb and Buried Alive that let you dig creatures out of your library?
Hey guys so I've actually moved on from commander on to 60 card decks so I don't have any commander decks.
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Black = Reanimate
Blue/Red = Efficiently move cards from library to GY
You could run a different third color but red also gives you HASTE by the barrel which is so clutch in reanimator. White creatures, overall (including mixed ones like BW/WR/etc) are the best reanimation targets (IMO) but after playing BWR reanimator for a while I've come to the conclusion that in EDH the reanimator archetype needs Blue.
Your mileage may vary but that's my 2c.
Karador, Ghost Chieftain gives you a built in reanimate engine, though the one creature per turn clause does put a hamper on things. In the right deck, though, you'll never pay more than 3 for him. Add Hermit Druid, and some dredge (Golgari Grave-Troll, Life from the Loam, Dakmor Salvage, etc) and you're good to go.
I have a friend who runs a Captain Sisay deck that uses things like Reya Dawnbringer, Karmic Guide, Saffi Eriksdotter, Genesis, Survival of the Fittest, Fauna Shaman, Loyal Retainers, etc, to create a pseudo-reanimator deck. It's a bit out there, but it's interesting nonetheless.
GRWort, Control
UBDralnu, Reanimator
UAzami, Locus of All KnowledgeU
BMarrow-Gnawer, Crime Lord of ComboB
WBRTariel, Hellraiser StaxWBR
Annul is really good in EDH
Next best would be Sedris, the Traitor King, or Scion the Ur-Dragon (if you like expensive mana-bases).
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1. She gives you a way to cheat fat into play from the command zone.
2. RWB has some of the most oppressive creatures. The fact that they are Angels, Demons, and Dragons helps.
3. BW gives you good tutors to get artifacts and enchantments - essential tools for reanimator.
4. R gives you the best destructive board wipes (reanimator likes these).
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Plus not a ton of people use him, which is nice when you sit down with people you don't usually play with. The way he directly interacts with the board, and the explosive outcomes that sometimes happen with him and several other creatures, can make him an extremely fun and interesting choice.
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That feels a little too much like Legacy Reanimation, which is great for Legacy, but aside from Terastodon, Griselbrand is banned in this format and there are a lot of better choices than Sphinx (not that Sphinx is a bad card, but for this format?) I'd rather go, if I am trying to win quick, for more powerful options.
Aw, I was beaten to it. You really can't get more pure then Chainer, though Balthor the Defiled also makes a mean cycling death machine.
If you're not necessarily focused on creatures, then Glissa, the Traitor is great with artifacts, as is the Esper side with Sharuum or Sydri. Any of those can be quite potent with some powerful Artifact Creatures.
If you want to remain in the graveyard, but be more generally good, adaptive and recoverable, look into Bant colors. Between Sun Titan, Karmic Guide, Saffi Eriksdotter, Genesis, Eternal Witness, Archaeomancer, and all the blink, bounce, and ETB love, you get a stupidly powerful suite of all-purpose recovery, in the strongest ETB abuse colors. Nim Deathmantle also fits into any deck to abuse the recursion train.
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You get cantrips (Careful study, Thirst for knowledge, Forbidden alchemy) and counters with blue. As well as looters and lets not forget Jin-gixatis. Easily one of the best things to reanimate in the game.
Green gives you Survival of the fittest. That's reason enough for it but it also has fatties like Terastodon and Woodfall primus. Cards like Greater good are also just busted and if it fails Eternal witness and Regrowth would like to have a word.
And black.
Reanimate, Life/death,Dance of the dead, Animate dead, Necromancy, Victimize.
Not to mention Demonic tutor,Entomb, and Vampiric tutor to make sure those things happen.
I have a primer link in my sig with a full list cards for playing in reanimator and reasons to play Plasm over Karador.
Thd deck can be as crazy competitive as you'd like or whatever level you want. Enjoy
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I don't think it's worth starting a new topic...Are there any more spells like Entomb and Buried Alive that let you dig creatures out of your library?
EDH Decks:
WUBOloro, Combo ControlWUB
UBOona Reanimator ComboUB
BRGProssh, Eater of the Blue MageBRG
UBRGrixis StormUBR
Rebuilding Jenara (stealyourstuff.dec)
Pauper Deck:
UBInspired SirenUB
Intuition
Survival of the fittest Kinda
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