what i like to do is turn one dark rit into entomb a spirit of the night then exhume and attack turn 2/3 ill sacrifice my spirit for the mana to hard cast another and then exhume the first one and swing again i think spirit of the night is a really good target for the hast element
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what i like to do is turn one dark rit into entomb a spirit of the night then exhume and attack turn 2/3 ill sacrifice my spirit for the mana to hard cast another and then exhume the first one and swing again i think spirit of the night is a really good target for the hast element
What!?! Engrish pwease.
What do you sac your spirit to? Why do you sac it? Are you saying your attacking with two spirits on turn 3?
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what i like to do is turn one dark rit into entomb a spirit of the night then exhume and attack turn 2/3 ill sacrifice my spirit for the mana to hard cast another and then exhume the first one and swing again i think spirit of the night is a really good target for the hast element
Don't really understand your post.
But Spirit of the Night is a legendary creature? You can only have 1 in play at once, it's no demigod of revenge.
Also, we have only one combat phase, how do you exhume to swing again?
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Hey peeps, my friend is working on a b/g reanimator build. We generally use T1 as our format restricted list.
Heres what we have so far. He does not want to utilize dredge cards, I already tried. I'm thinking of using Hermit Druid in here. Any ideas?
Hey! For Reanimation targets, I think Darksteel Colossus is a great one, probably better than the Leviathan in this situation. You may want to try Entomb as another efficient way to get the targets into the graveyard.
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Hey! For Reanimation targets, I think Darksteel Colossus is a great one, probably better than the Leviathan in this situation. You may want to try Entomb as another efficient way to get the targets into the graveyard.
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It was a "half-joke". The part about Entomb was serious.
As for additional suggestions, Sharuum the Hegemon is a cool target, as well as any large flier.
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As for additional suggestions, Sharuum the Hegemon is a cool target, as well as any large flier.
Nice! 2 re-animations in one if the Inkwell or Sphinx are already in the yard. Not sure if there's enough death or control in it like the other targets though. Good choice though.
Oh and your list does seem to be lacking Buried Alive, one of the best cards for bringing multiple reanimator targets into the graveyard. A good choice to consider.
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I seriously can't believe that nobody has even mentioned avatar of discord or living death the avatar is the best and cheapest way to clear thos off color creatures out of your hand and into the yard for reanimate targets.
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Turn 1 dark ritual, avatar of discard, discard akroma and reya.
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Turn 3 animate akroma with reya and cast buried alive.
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Running mono black manabase you can run more options with your creatures and have an answer to more versatile situations in a casual AND compeditive environment. Color splash is not needed.
I seriously can't believe that nobody has even mentioned avatar of discord or living death the avatar is the best and cheapest way to clear thos off color creatures out of your hand and into the yard for reanimate targets.
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Turn 1 dark ritual, avatar of discard, discard akroma and reya.
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Turn 3 animate akroma with reya and cast buried alive.
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Make them pay by wrath of god and reanimating all of your creatures at once with living death.
Running mono black manabase you can run more options with your creatures and have an answer to more versatile situations in a casual AND compeditive environment. Color splash is not needed.
And that is of course presuming that you DO have all 5 cards needed for that combo to work the way you described? There's better options that are more reliable.
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You misunderstand. That is not the combo per se. The avatars give you the option to discard dead cards like those angels. The optimal play is still entomb and exhume. My point was that if that is a sub par opening hand you are still in terrific shape. And that there are more versatile options than running 4 iona and akroma. That's just asanine and asking for trouble. There are so many good creatures to choose from why choose just 1? Run them all. And with the avatars of discord you can run more creature heavy. Just toss them. Never a bad idea when running reya. Also anyone playing discard on you is doing you a favor. Toss critters. Animate, smash face.
The avatars give you the option to discard dead cards like those angels.
I'm sorry, but what do you think putrid imp is for? To get your "combo" off, you need two specific cards, angels in hand (2 of them so as not to lose card advantage), and a swamp. I prefer one card and a swamp and any number of angels, with an ability that can be activated any time.
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I'm sorry, but what do you think putrid imp is for? To get your "combo" off, you need two specific cards, angels in hand (2 of them so as not to lose card advantage), and a swamp. I prefer one card and a swamp and any number of angels, with an ability that can be activated any time.
Agreed. Or perhaps a simple Dark Ritual and Buried Alive. Then you can watch your opponent look on in horror until you draw those reanimation cards.
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Oh my god, people on this forum jus love to trounce anyone thinking outside the normal "netdeck" mentality. Putrid imp sucks. A 1/1 will not win you the game. A 5/3 with flying will, on a 4 turn clock. And what makes you think I don't run buried alive? The avatar is aburied alive on a stick. Its like running 8 buried alives. Stop taking posts so literal and THINK. I was giving examples. Not trying to lay out a god hand. My brother started using the avatars in his reanimator. People laughed at him. He promptly stomped their ass with them. You are right that imp does the same thing essentialy. But I will take the 5/3 flier over a 1/1 any day of the week. and I laughed so hard at the blue players screaming at my brother when he plays living death. It wrecks games. Period. They spend all their counters on his exhume/animate spells that they have nothing left for living death. Do yourselves a favor and take a deep breath, step back, and try to take another look at what I have said. I'm not saying anything that doesn't make sense. But remember its a free country. You can play with whatever you want. My 5/3 will be. Happy to eat your putrid imp.
Oh my god, people on this forum jus love to trounce anyone thinking outside the normal "netdeck" mentality. Putrid imp sucks. A 1/1 will not win you the game. A 5/3 with flying will, on a 4 turn clock. And what makes you think I don't run buried alive? The avatar is aburied alive on a stick. Its like running 8 buried alives. Stop taking posts so literal and THINK. I was giving examples. Not trying to lay out a god hand. My brother started using the avatars in his reanimator. People laughed at him. He promptly stomped their ass with them. You are right that imp does the same thing essentialy. But I will take the 5/3 flier over a 1/1 any day of the week. and I laughed so hard at the blue players screaming at my brother when he plays living death. It wrecks games. Period. They spend all their counters on his exhume/animate spells that they have nothing left for living death. Do yourselves a favor and take a deep breath, step back, and try to take another look at what I have said. I'm not saying anything that doesn't make sense. But remember its a free country. You can play with whatever you want. My 5/3 will be. Happy to eat your putrid imp.
We need a nerdrage emoticon for this sort of post. Sadly, you're wrong. Putrid Imp is faster than Avatar. Buried Alive gets the card from your library so it acts like a tutor in the deck while Avatar of Discord is just a more expensive way to dump your hard. So yeah, enjoy your slow reanimator decks if you like but it doesn't make them good ones.
You can discuss the worth of AoD in Reanimator all day long, but keep out drama. Both and anybody else.
@ ash and fire: Avatar is not like Buried Alive. The point of Buried Alive is that it gets you (1) whatever you need (2) from your library. Avatar makes you discard (1) whatever you have (2) in your hand. -> Avatar isn't as selective as Buried Alive (1) and needs more resources (2). I'm not even mentioning the case where you only have 1 fatty in hand and have to discard something else.
Point taken, it's both a 4 turn clock and an additional threat. That can't be argued away, but are the downsides worth it? If you need an additional 5 damage from your discard outlet to win fast enough, wouldn't it be better to just play a faster deck? If removal to your threats is so abundant that you need your discard outlet to be one, isn't it better to play better (removal resistant) reanimation targets?
Barring no Dark Ritual on t1, shouldn't you have a winning fatty on the boad by t3? If not, wouldn't an Imp be better, because you can follow it up with Exhume easier than a 3cmc Avatar?
You also mentioned to just play more creatures to reanimate when play AoD. The problem I see, is that a deck that 'wastes' slots on too many reanimation targets will be inconsitent because it lacks Tutors & draw spells and there is nothing worse than an opening-seven of fat, without the option to dump it into the 'yard and get it back out of there again. That makes you mulligan more in a deck that already has a lot CdA, making you easier prey for whatever control elements the opponent plays.
If a blue deck can't deal with some reanimation spells, you should tell your friends to read the MUC primer.
btw Could we see your list?
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Putrid imp costs 1 black. It looks faster but is it? Turn 1 optimal play is ritual enomb exhume. So you wouldn't pay it in turn 1. If no ritual the you play just the entomb. Turn two animate is what you need first. So exhume or animate dead or reanimate turn two right? Now turn 3 you should have 3 mana right? And your optimal play here is a 1/1? This is why I say avatar is better. It is also a cheap creature that is big without needing to animate it. I'm not sayint imp doesn't have advantages. I'm just trying to say that avatar has some too. It all comes down to personal preferences. I prefer a 5/3 flier. As for a list I don't have the deck as its my brothers monstrosity, but I can venture a guess as to what is in there. He has taken this to type 1 tourneys and won. Even against power 9.
That list might not be 100 percent accurate as he changes it often with new creatures. Ill never forget him making five people scoop on turn 1 with ritual rtual avatar of discard and exhuming kaervek.
Wow, my mono-black reanimator would never get to the 5 mana for living death.
I barely even cast buried alive becasue it costs so much. Maybe ash's brothers deck is made for multiplayer? I can't imagine waiting until turn 3 to discard some fatties, then wait until turn 4 to reanimate something! Seriously? Someone should be dead on turn 4.
On the other hand, tha avatar would be awesome with a early ritual. I prefer speed and consistancy though, so I run 4 Putrid Imp.
I use mine in multiplayer all the time and just remove players with Iona.
Putrid imp costs 1 black. It looks faster but is it? Turn 1 optimal play is ritual enomb exhume. So you wouldn't pay it in turn 1. If no ritual the you play just the entomb. Turn two animate is what you need first. So exhume or animate dead or reanimate turn two right? Now turn 3 you should have 3 mana right? And your optimal play here is a 1/1? This is why I say avatar is better. It is also a cheap creature that is big without needing to animate it. I'm not sayint imp doesn't have advantages. I'm just trying to say that avatar has some too. It all comes down to personal preferences. I prefer a 5/3 flier. As for a list I don't have the deck as its my brothers monstrosity, but I can venture a guess as to what is in there. He has taken this to type 1 tourneys and won. Even against power 9.
That list might not be 100 percent accurate as he changes it often with new creatures. Ill never forget him making five people scoop on turn 1 with ritual rtual avatar of discard and exhuming kaervek.
Imp is faster: If you can't Entomb or BA off a Ritual t1, you can cast Imp and discard that fatty you hold to reanimate it t2. Avatar needs a Ritual to do that. Same for t2 Imp into t3 reanimation. On t3 one can cast Imp and reanimation - while AoD is only good for a t4 reanimation.
Imp isn't a 1/1, it's a 1cmc discard-outlet that happens to be a 1/1.
That list is only 58 cards. All its creatures but Iona are sub-par if aimed at Vintage. Not to mention that the list lacks disruption like Duress o.s. .
Any deck can play P9 and it's not a 'real' vintage tournament when there is not enough graveyard hate to deal with Ichorid (and thus Reanimator).
To win with this by t3 you need Ritual into AoD into Exhume 'Kroma t2, unlikely.
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The list is incomplete because it is my brothers deck and I don't have it in front of me. I just ventured a guess.
Avatar is awesome on turn 1. And his consistancy doesn't really suffer. and since when is akroma,,and kokusho sub par? What do people want? Do you want a 1 mana spell that says you win the game unless your opponent vomits up a gold brick? I don't understand the need for theese super powered you can't play cards. Ionas kool. But who wants to sit down at a "casual" game and be told, "hey, you. The guy who sat down to have a little fun,relax, and "play" a game. Yeah, you. You don't get to play anymore,"
That isn't fun. Its not meant for casual play and it sucks to be the one guy at the table who just sits there.....
I posted in the "casual" reanimator thread. Not the type 1compeditive, or the legacy.
So, what's with all the hate?
Avatar on t1 is as 'unfun' as any other creature with a power of 5 or more on t1. Not literaly of course, but I guess you get my point.
Akroma is sub-par since WotC decided to print Hellkite Overlord and Kokusho never was good in the Reanimator. Both are good cards nonetheless.
Your borthers deck is a one trick pony trying to draw a good opening 7 and play a game of solitaire with it. That's no 'hate' but a neutral statement. If you like non-interactive games fine... If you like AoD that's fine too. I'm just trying to relativate your "AoD is awesome". Getting your brother's list to a more interactive and less luck-dependant level would also be cool, but if he (get him to post here:)) doesn't like that, that's fine too.
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What do you sac your spirit to? Why do you sac it? Are you saying your attacking with two spirits on turn 3?
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Don't really understand your post.
But Spirit of the Night is a legendary creature? You can only have 1 in play at once, it's no demigod of revenge.
Also, we have only one combat phase, how do you exhume to swing again?
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Hey! For Reanimation targets, I think Darksteel Colossus is a great one, probably better than the Leviathan in this situation. You may want to try Entomb as another efficient way to get the targets into the graveyard.
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Not sure if serious.
Darksteel Colossus can't be reanimated and Inkwell Leviathan has shroud. I definitely like Inkwell better here.
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It was a "half-joke". The part about Entomb was serious.
As for additional suggestions, Sharuum the Hegemon is a cool target, as well as any large flier.
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Nice! 2 re-animations in one if the Inkwell or Sphinx are already in the yard. Not sure if there's enough death or control in it like the other targets though. Good choice though.
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Why not you guys try out the Worldgorger Dragon combo (not the vintage one) that was in extended years back?
Just some thoughts.
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This would be interesting if Protean Hydra was in hand too. A nice way to spend the mana produced.
Hmm.... new deck idea.... Thank you.
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Turn 1 dark ritual, avatar of discard, discard akroma and reya.
Turn 2 exhume reya
Turn 3 animate akroma with reya and cast buried alive.
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And that is of course presuming that you DO have all 5 cards needed for that combo to work the way you described? There's better options that are more reliable.
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I'm sorry, but what do you think putrid imp is for? To get your "combo" off, you need two specific cards, angels in hand (2 of them so as not to lose card advantage), and a swamp. I prefer one card and a swamp and any number of angels, with an ability that can be activated any time.
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Agreed. Or perhaps a simple Dark Ritual and Buried Alive. Then you can watch your opponent look on in horror until you draw those reanimation cards.
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We need a nerdrage emoticon for this sort of post. Sadly, you're wrong. Putrid Imp is faster than Avatar. Buried Alive gets the card from your library so it acts like a tutor in the deck while Avatar of Discord is just a more expensive way to dump your hard. So yeah, enjoy your slow reanimator decks if you like but it doesn't make them good ones.
@ ash and fire: Avatar is not like Buried Alive. The point of Buried Alive is that it gets you (1) whatever you need (2) from your library. Avatar makes you discard (1) whatever you have (2) in your hand. -> Avatar isn't as selective as Buried Alive (1) and needs more resources (2). I'm not even mentioning the case where you only have 1 fatty in hand and have to discard something else.
Point taken, it's both a 4 turn clock and an additional threat. That can't be argued away, but are the downsides worth it? If you need an additional 5 damage from your discard outlet to win fast enough, wouldn't it be better to just play a faster deck? If removal to your threats is so abundant that you need your discard outlet to be one, isn't it better to play better (removal resistant) reanimation targets?
Barring no Dark Ritual on t1, shouldn't you have a winning fatty on the boad by t3? If not, wouldn't an Imp be better, because you can follow it up with Exhume easier than a 3cmc Avatar?
You also mentioned to just play more creatures to reanimate when play AoD. The problem I see, is that a deck that 'wastes' slots on too many reanimation targets will be inconsitent because it lacks Tutors & draw spells and there is nothing worse than an opening-seven of fat, without the option to dump it into the 'yard and get it back out of there again. That makes you mulligan more in a deck that already has a lot CdA, making you easier prey for whatever control elements the opponent plays.
If a blue deck can't deal with some reanimation spells, you should tell your friends to read the MUC primer.
btw Could we see your list?
4 dark rituals
4 buried alive
4 exhume
4 entomb
4 Reanimate
2 living death
2 animate dead
1 akroma angel of wrath
1 reya dawnbringer
1 iona shield of emeria
2 kokusho the evening star
1 karvek the merciless
1 Mindleech mass
1 avatar of woe
1 blazing archon
1 ishan's shade
1 wrexial the risen deep
1 scion of darkness
That list might not be 100 percent accurate as he changes it often with new creatures. Ill never forget him making five people scoop on turn 1 with ritual rtual avatar of discard and exhuming kaervek.
I barely even cast buried alive becasue it costs so much. Maybe ash's brothers deck is made for multiplayer? I can't imagine waiting until turn 3 to discard some fatties, then wait until turn 4 to reanimate something! Seriously? Someone should be dead on turn 4.
On the other hand, tha avatar would be awesome with a early ritual. I prefer speed and consistancy though, so I run 4 Putrid Imp.
I use mine in multiplayer all the time and just remove players with Iona.
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Imp is faster: If you can't Entomb or BA off a Ritual t1, you can cast Imp and discard that fatty you hold to reanimate it t2. Avatar needs a Ritual to do that. Same for t2 Imp into t3 reanimation. On t3 one can cast Imp and reanimation - while AoD is only good for a t4 reanimation.
Imp isn't a 1/1, it's a 1cmc discard-outlet that happens to be a 1/1.
That list is only 58 cards. All its creatures but Iona are sub-par if aimed at Vintage. Not to mention that the list lacks disruption like Duress o.s. .
Any deck can play P9 and it's not a 'real' vintage tournament when there is not enough graveyard hate to deal with Ichorid (and thus Reanimator).
To win with this by t3 you need Ritual into AoD into Exhume 'Kroma t2, unlikely.
Avatar is awesome on turn 1. And his consistancy doesn't really suffer. and since when is akroma,,and kokusho sub par? What do people want? Do you want a 1 mana spell that says you win the game unless your opponent vomits up a gold brick? I don't understand the need for theese super powered you can't play cards. Ionas kool. But who wants to sit down at a "casual" game and be told, "hey, you. The guy who sat down to have a little fun,relax, and "play" a game. Yeah, you. You don't get to play anymore,"
That isn't fun. Its not meant for casual play and it sucks to be the one guy at the table who just sits there.....
I posted in the "casual" reanimator thread. Not the type 1compeditive, or the legacy.
So, what's with all the hate?
Akroma is sub-par since WotC decided to print Hellkite Overlord and Kokusho never was good in the Reanimator. Both are good cards nonetheless.
Your borthers deck is a one trick pony trying to draw a good opening 7 and play a game of solitaire with it. That's no 'hate' but a neutral statement. If you like non-interactive games fine... If you like AoD that's fine too. I'm just trying to relativate your "AoD is awesome". Getting your brother's list to a more interactive and less luck-dependant level would also be cool, but if he (get him to post here:)) doesn't like that, that's fine too.