Blue Black Reanimator with a handy little minion...
Psssst. Hey, you. Yeah you! You looking to cast some spells? Tell you what, my boss, he likes to cast spells, but he don't like to pay all the costs. Yeah, ya see, he would rather just look through his whole book and find a cheaper way to do it. He is always ripping pages out of the book and then just throwing them away. Then he sort of resurrects them for cheap. Yeah yeah I know, sounds cool right? So you want to get in on that game? Well that's where I come in. You see the boss pays me to ... hurt people, which helps him come up with new ideas. WAIT! Don't go. I wouldn't do that to you! You seem like a stand up guy. It's just the boss needs someone to help him cast the next spell, and I didn't think I was up to the task. Just step over here by the docks and...
Stab! ................thud
yeah, that'll do friend. I can't stand it when the boss sacrifices me. Thanks for your help. I never was up for the dying part, but boss says we need a sacrifice for his Soul Exchange spell. Now I just have to go find this Mr. Pathrazer and direct him to the front lines...
The goal here is to draw a ton of cards, throw them all in the graveyard, and then reanimate our creatures. Part of the beauty of this deck is that it doesn't have a general, it has a minion, a lackey. Sygg lets us play in the right colors (blue for deck manipulation and black for reanimation) and he occasionally lets us draw an extra card. More than that, he gets out early to serve as an expendable blocker, and he makes an ideal creature sacrifice for Soul Exchange and Victimize. When your opponent tucks Sygg into the library, look them in the eye and say "I didn't need him anyway."
Use Jin-Gitaxias, Windfall, Consecrated Sphinx, and the rest of your card draw suite to keep your hand and graveyard full. Buried Alive is the best kind of tutor, because it sends our heavy hitters straight to the graveyard. Once the yard is loaded, put your minions directly in to play with one of the 15 reanimation options. You can go for quick single targets with Reanimate or Animate Dead. On the other hand, why not just put it all in play? End the long game with an ultimate from Liliana Vess or Grimoire of the Dead.
Once you have a good creature on the board, clone the heck out of it. We are running 9 clones here, because we like fatties at a discount. 3 or 4 eldrazi (for about 4 mana each) will bring the game to a close quite effectively.
There are also a handful of other cards that exist to make this whole process easier.
-Counterspell, Spell Crumple, and Hinder are around for emergencies.
-Steal problem permanents with Control Magic, Blatant Thievery, and Corrupted Conscience.
-Deadeye Navigator gets to be a real jerk with clones, Massacre Wurm, Rune-Scarred Demon, and all the other etb effects.
This is a fun deck that plays a bit more fairly than some reanimator options. It has explosive starts and runs on a very low amount of mana.
Turn 1, play land
Turn 2, play Dimir Aqueduct, return land to hand. Discard Pathrazer of Ulamog during clean up
Turn 3, Play land. Play Lightning Greaves. Reanimate targeting Pathrazer. Equip, swing, shake hands with the player who scoops.
