Are there any top tier decks for reainmater in modern?
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Posted on Feb. 23, 2014, 4:12 a.m. by VegetaWins_015
Is Living End the only thing?
VegetaWins_015 says... #3
Do you mind linking some of those so I can take a closer look?
February 23, 2014 5:55 a.m.
There is also Protean Hulk and Complex Dredge.
I'm on my phone so can't link them but Travis Woo did an article on complex dredge, the rest will be on www.mtgdecks.net
February 23, 2014 6:44 a.m.
megawurmple says... #5
As mentioned before, Gifts Control/Reanimator is nice. Run ones and twos of a load of nice fatties and grab the best one for the situation and an Unburial Rites using Gifts Ungiven so that they have to put both in the 'yard, then reanimate. The two shells you can use for Gifts is either Control, or a more Midrange-y kind of deck. The control option is usually Esper colours and runs like a normal control deck until you power out your fatty of choice. The Midrange route will sometimes be 4 colour (Esper with green) or Bant and will use small amounts of ramp to power out the fatties really early on. This deck will play cards like Phantasmal Image and Sun Titan as well as the massive fatties, and is overall more creature based.
DredgeVine is an interesting deck as well, although it's less of a reanimator build. It is usually in Jund colours, but sometimes splashes blue for Hedron Crab . Early game, it will load up the graveyard using Faithless Looting , Hedron Crab and Dredge cards. It will make good use of reusable creatures such as Gravecrawler , Bloodghast and Vengevine to swarm the board, making the most of your now huge graveyard.
February 23, 2014 9:20 a.m.
VegetaWins_015 says... #6
@TitansFTW I thought Gifts Ungiven was banned?
February 24, 2014 2:51 a.m.
@INDYnOUTLAW88: Gifts Ungiven is only banned in EDH and restricted to one copy per deck in Vintage.
MollyMab says... #2
Living End is more a combo deck that plays a controlly game.
There are a few reanimator style decks that float around T1.5-T2
Gifts or Gift Rocks might play Elesh Norn and Unburial Rites so you can EoT Gifts Ungiven for just Elesh Norn and Rites and then on your turn flashback rites to reanimate Elesh Norn.
There is also Griselbrand Cannon which will cheat Griselbrand or Emrekul into play via Goyo's Vengeance or Through the Breach.
DredgeVine is semi reanimator. Basically you dredge away cards like Vengevine and then play 2 dudes to reanimate bunch of 4/3 hasty attackers.
February 23, 2014 5:20 a.m.