[Deck] Reanimator

[UberNewHacks]

I used to play reanimator for a long time in 1.5.
however, it prooved to not be good enough, at least the build i had, so i abandoned it for a while.
however, i recently saw it in the top 8 in the 9/10 open mana leak tournament
so i took it out again
my decklist is

Creatures to Reanimate
4 akroma, angel of wrath
4 phantom nishoba
2 spirit of the night

creatures to graveyard spells
4 careful study
4 putrid imp
3 buried alive
2 sickening dreams

reanimate spells
4 reanimate
4 exhume
2 animate dead

misc spells
3 mystical tutor
3 duress

land
12 swamp
4 underground river
2 watery grave
1 polluted delta
1 island
1 tainted isle

as you can tell, i am on a budget mana-base wise
i also think i need to revise the mystical tutors/duresses
all feedback is appreciated

[nitewolf9]

I can tell you one thing, dark ritual needs to be in here.

[Clark Kant]

There's already a 3 pg topic for this.

http://mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4004

In b4lock

[al the great]

I myself ran reanimator for a long time a few years ago too. After extensive testing it really needs Dark Rits.

I dont recommend Chrome Mox as because many times i draw first turn Mox it did not help as much as Dark Rits in place of it. Also first turn Rits = first turn Exhumes.

Another suggestion is try running Simic Sky Swallower x4 instead of Spirit of the Night and Phantom Nishoba. Even though Spirit has haste I personally would wouldn't want my creature to be bolted or blue returned to my hand.

I hope that helps if anymore questions I'm the man to ask for reanimator.

P.S. Reanimate Dead doesnt stay on Akroma.

[Parcher]

P.S. Reanimate Dead doesnt stay on Akroma.


Originally Posted by bradleyjx (Level One Judge)
The end result is an Akroma in play and Animate Dead in the graveyard. To reach this end, you must know the Oracle text of Animate Dead:

When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature. Put target creature card from a graveyard into play under your control and attach Animate Dead to it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
When Animate Dead leaves play, destroy enchanted creature. It can't be regenerated.

So, when you play Animate Dead, you follow the steps that it says to do as much as able...

When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature.

Easy enough...

Put target creature card from a graveyard into play under your control and attach Animate Dead to it.

So, Akroma comes back into play. Animate Dead, however, cannot be attached to the creature as the card instructs; as such, it never attaches. Note that Akroma is a legal target when it's in the graveyard, as protection doesn't do anything when a creature isn't in play.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Since it never gets attached, this never happens.

When Animate Dead leaves play, destroy enchanted creature. It can't be regenerated.

When Animate Dead finishes resolving, it doesn't have a creature attached to it, so there is no creature to enchant.

There you go, you now have an Akroma in play without Animate Dead attached to it.

:smile: That is now a good thing.

[Peter_Rotten]

This topic exsists already.