I currently only run the one deck. I was looking to construct another monoblack for a little different focus than my Gisa deck. I used to run Balthor the Defiled, which was more focused on reanimation, and ran the mentioned cards. You've put a lot of thought into this general and decklist so I was just wondering what your input was on them. I'm always iffy on Diamond Valley myself as well.

Nantuko Shade?

Atony1400 if I was going to run a shade variant in addition to Nirkana Revenant, I'd run Liliana's Shade as the etb ability actually gets me something.

As it stands Nantuko Shade is at best just a big body and of little use in this reaninator shell.

Yeah, I can understand that. Sweet deck though! (I would give you a +1 but I already gave you one a while ago, but I'll still try)

Love Lili, but I use her as a Tiny Leader where she's more powerful ;) but I like much of the build here

Hello, love your deck. Just wondering what the polluted delta is used for?

xxbad.applexx all of the fetch lands are all good with Crucible of Worlds. They work well with Sensei's Divining Top as well. They also provide minimal deck thining.

Oh okay, thank you.. I'm very interested in building this deck and I have been slowly purchasing all of these cards. Thank you for this.

If you have any more questions about card selection, or deck operations, don't hesitate to ask!

Pale Rider of Trostad seems really underwhelming in EDH, especially in a reanimator strategy.

Also, Dance of the Dead is the other Animate Dead, if you're abusing ETBs or continuous effects.

Daedalus19876 Dance of the Dead seems to have a larger drawback, but still works well with the self sacrificers. I'll consider it.

Pale Rider seems pretty decent at getting things into the grave, which makes it pretty good for reanimator, it's low costs makes it easy to return with Liliana, and it's got a decent body that can't be chumped.

Any suggestions for cuts for Season of the Witch?

I was wondering if Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet or Relentless Dead would be viable for this deck? Or if you ever thought to try it out?

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I was very excited for Relentless Dead when it was spoiled. But playtests at the time showed I tan too few Zombies. Now, zombies are just over a fifth of my creature count it might be better. However, it stl has 2 large flaws that makes me leery to include it.

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet on the other hand, I overlooked completely when he was spoiled. He's a Leyline of the Void on legs that gets fat. His biggest drawback here is that he's legendary. Liliana can't reanimate legendary creatures, so I tried to limit their frequency here. His abilities are neat, and can quickly create a token swarm, or become a great voltron target, but I feel, ultimately he doesn't do what this deck wants. I'm a little biased, as I don't like Leyline of the Void/Rest in Peace being used on me, so I don't like using them on my friends. Against other grave decks, I'll merely try harder to combo out, rather than ruin our fun. That may be my downfall one day.

What does everybody think about From Under the Floorboards? Could be a good way to stabilize, gain a handful of life and dudes.

@NecroPony how well does your deck do with mana ramp? 3 dudes and 3 life for CMC5 is decent but it's really not an include unless you can reliably trigger its Madness cost and sink a ton of mana into it.

Between recurring the shit out of Burnished Hart, Cabal Coffers and or Liliana of the Dark Realms I rarely have mana issues. At most my issues are "Aww I can't cast Behold the Beyond and then combo out this turn" because even I can't hit 17 mana till late game.

Thinking of removing To the Slaughter with Oath of Liliana

Playtests today showed that I rely on Mikokoro for worst case scenario card advantage, and the sanitarium wasn't cutting it. I swapped them out, balance was restored. Just goes to show you that Even after a year and a half playing a deck you can run card with out truly knowing why.

TL;DR You can learn about your deck even after years of playing it. Also I switched sanitarium for Mikokoro.

Reckless Spite to replace Ashes to Ashes? Is instant speed better than exile?

EDH has too much recursion, even in non-reanimator decks. If I need to answer something, I need to make sure it doesn't come back. Generally I don't have to worry about things at instant speed. I'll survive until a wrath or my other sorcery speed removal can deal with it.

May I suggest Contamination to completely lock out non-black decks and also to function as a pseudo Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. It's a good card for soft locking the board while you recover from a wipe/set up your board and combos.

Trashmaster, while Contamination is a a neat card, it can be a little cruel. Not saying this deck can't be cruel....the real issue is i don't have enough consistent reanimator to make it a sustainable approach. I tested it out early on in the deck and found it hard to maintain, and I've actually lowered my creature count since then.

Considering swapping Blood Artist for Cemetery Reaper. Blood artist seems win more, and reaper is a lord that gravehates and gives me blockers.