In my experience in the past while playing Magic: the Gathering Standard format, one of the impactful gameplays is how people cheat huge and devastating creatures into play/battlefield. Also, a bonus is that those creatures get to have enter-the-battlefield effects which makes them worthy even if you were able to destroy them on the spot. Having those costly mana costs is no problem as they only use reanimation spells to get them online and just plainly win from there. I can say that it is one of the pillars of the Magic: the GAthering gameplay as Wizards still continue to print newer versions of these reanimate spells.
For today’s Standard BO1 deck feature, we have the recent “Reanimator” list in the format and its notable targets are Baneslayer Angel, Velomachus Lorehold, and Koma, Cosmos Serpent.
Check it out below.
Deck
2 Baneslayer Angel
3 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
4 Velomachus Lorehold
4 Shock
4 Thrill of Possibility
3 Unbreakable Bond
4 Shadows’ Verdict
4 Return Upon the Tide
4 Seize the Spoils
3 Thrilling Discovery
3 Vanishing Verse
4 Fabled Passage
4 Blightstep Pathway
4 Brightclimb Pathway
4 Needleverge Pathway
1 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Mountain
2 Savai Triome
The new reanimation cards are Return Upon the Tide, and Unbreakable Bond. They are above-average cost but you have a few spells that can ramp them up, and fix your card draw of course. What I am referring to on the ramp is Seize the Spoils, which replaces a card with two more cards and a Treasure token. This lets you cast by turn four either of the two reanimate spells or get extra mana for later to use if you would need to hard cast a Koma for example.
Why Velomachus Lorehold has a playset copy here is because of its trigger ability when it attacks. It lets you get an option to use another reanimation spell drawn from the top seven cards of your library. That is basically hitting two birds err fatties in one stone.
If you get to play this deck in Magic Arena, let me know how it went through in the comment box below. I am pretty it is enjoyable having an early threat that the opponent will get caught off-guard.
That is a wrap for this Standard BO1 deck feature, until the next blog post.