This list is great. My personal favorite reanimation commander is Kroxa and Kunorous. They are a great backup reanimation spell that flies under the radar, and a tertiary beatdown plan. with vigilence, menace, and lifelink they attack and regain life, which is great when so many good black spells cost this resource. Then they also discourage attackers.
I gotta give it to Zask, Skittering Swarmlord. Just flat able to play lands and cast insects from your graveyard. It has routinely proven itself as easily in the top power level's of our play groups deck's. It's also scary consistent.
It’s wild because I thought the same thing and out of 8 games, I’ve not popped once using reanimation theme. Prob my deck list but I ended up pulling it apart
my 3 grave decks I have and all are fun: Mirko from Karlov precon - you can cheat by reanimating 0/0 dudes that enter as a copy of something. Winter from DuskMourn precon - here no limits for power or mana, just collect delirium on first 3 turns by self mill and then on t4 Winter can reanimate some bomb for 7 mana. good luck to out enemies with finding removals each turn. Syr konrad - here I reanimate just with a spells, but there are so many combo options that sometimes you can miss lethal :) my last win was tutor for bojuka bog (whaaat?! ;)) which I targeted on myself cause I had 19 creatures in grave which deald 19 dmg to each player.
I love reanimation decks. I'm enjoying playing Winter, Cynical Oportunist since I took the precon and upgraded it within a budget for a local shop league and it is bonkers. I pulled off a Culling Ritual + Walk in Closet // Forgotten Cellar play and suddenly I had a turn with 30 mana and all my graveyard as my hand. Automilliing is pretty consistent. It is not the cEDH golgari staple Meren but reanimating all permanents, not just creatures, is fun. I also want to play Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate (Rakdos Meren) when Foundations release.
My Nethroi deck is all about big butts, a bunch of low power/high toughness creatures along with Doran the Siege Tower type abilities to weaponize those thick butts
I’m building Firja, Judge of Valor as a reanimation commander simply because she has the sickest art in ”modern magic” by GodMachine. Also, I get to play a mini-game of melding Gisela and Bruna! One could also go Orzhov spellslinger with her (janky but fun).
7:43 Unfortunately Alter of The Wretched won't work on the Orc Army since they're a token creature and AotW only works on nontoken creatures.
someone already said it but leaving Meren off this list is crazy work
This list is great. My personal favorite reanimation commander is Kroxa and Kunorous. They are a great backup reanimation spell that flies under the radar, and a tertiary beatdown plan. with vigilence, menace, and lifelink they attack and regain life, which is great when so many good black spells cost this resource. Then they also discourage attackers.
Altar of the Wretched does not work with Army Tokens because it specifically says you have to sacrifice a “nontoken” creature
No Meren? Have you checked out Alesha, who laughs at fate?Fate? Would love to see what you can do with her.
Been enjoying Sefris as a reanimator deck.
I gotta give it to Zask, Skittering Swarmlord. Just flat able to play lands and cast insects from your graveyard. It has routinely proven itself as easily in the top power level's of our play groups deck's. It's also scary consistent.
It’s wild because I thought the same thing and out of 8 games, I’ve not popped once using reanimation theme. Prob my deck list but I ended up pulling it apart
Raffine reminds me a lot of Varina Lich Queen but with Zombies.
my 3 grave decks I have and all are fun:
Mirko from Karlov precon - you can cheat by reanimating 0/0 dudes that enter as a copy of something.
Winter from DuskMourn precon - here no limits for power or mana, just collect delirium on first 3 turns by self mill and then on t4 Winter can reanimate some bomb for 7 mana. good luck to out enemies with finding removals each turn.
Syr konrad - here I reanimate just with a spells, but there are so many combo options that sometimes you can miss lethal :) my last win was tutor for bojuka bog (whaaat?! ;)) which I targeted on myself cause I had 19 creatures in grave which deald 19 dmg to each player.
I love reanimation decks. I'm enjoying playing Winter, Cynical Oportunist since I took the precon and upgraded it within a budget for a local shop league and it is bonkers. I pulled off a Culling Ritual + Walk in Closet // Forgotten Cellar play and suddenly I had a turn with 30 mana and all my graveyard as my hand. Automilliing is pretty consistent.
It is not the cEDH golgari staple Meren but reanimating all permanents, not just creatures, is fun.
I also want to play Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate (Rakdos Meren) when Foundations release.
My Nethroi deck is all about big butts, a bunch of low power/high toughness creatures along with Doran the Siege Tower type abilities to weaponize those thick butts
I’m building Firja, Judge of Valor as a reanimation commander simply because she has the sickest art in ”modern magic” by GodMachine. Also, I get to play a mini-game of melding Gisela and Bruna!
One could also go Orzhov spellslinger with her (janky but fun).
Six is soo underated
Not seeing my girl Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher here on the list hurts my feelings so bad
Fr I have a Carmen deck and it’s super nasty. It’s such a versatile deck
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I run scion of the ur dragon as my reanimation commander with atraxa the unifer as the secret commander. The deck is super mean.
Personally I love my mirko deck. Throw around some reef worm and unlimited sac like alter... I had 3 Kraken in 2 turns
Alter of the Wretched sacrifices a non token creature. The Orcs Army is a token, unfortunately.
For me my favourite is the new Mirko
No marchesa of the black rose 🥲
Sadly, the altar of the wretched says nontoken creature so you cant sacrifice the army token (I have cheated multiple times this way)
Kennrith isn't on this list? Insane.
Where's slimefoot and squee?
I’m still reanimating just fine with Chainer. Losing crypt sucked but meh.
No balthor? List invalid
A fun alternative to Raffine in Esper that Im always going to recommend is Sefris. Dungeons and instant speed reanimation are insane