With Gatecrash hitting Standard last Feb. 1, a lot of decks have been considered and included in the format. A few existing archetypes got its upgrade while a few others created the latest combo deck. This deck strategy appeared on last weekend’s Starcity Games Open in Atlanta. It was piloted by Brian Braun-Duin and the deck is an updated Human Reanimator with Angel of Glory’s Rise.

The deck’s combo method is to reanimate an Angel of Glory’s Rise with a Cartel Aristocrat, a Fiend Hunter, and a Huntmaster of the Fells in your graveyard. Quoting from the daily decklist on the mothership, “The Angel returns all three, and you resolve their triggers, putting a 2/2 Wolf onto the battlefield, gaining 3 life, and exiling the Angel of Glory’s Rise. Sacrifice your Huntmaster and the Fiend Hunter to the Cartel Aristocrat, and when the Angel returns to play, it will return both the Fiend Hunter and the Huntmaster to play, allowing you to loop the combo, gain a huge amount of life, and put a lot of tokens onto the battlefield.”

Here is the decklist:

Maindeck
1 Blood Crypt
4 Cavern of Souls
2 Clifftop Retreat
1 Godless Shrine
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Stomping Ground
3 Sunpetal Grove
2 Temple Garden
4 Woodland Cemetery
23 lands

4 Angel of Glory’s Rise
4 Cartel Aristocrat
1 Cathedral Sanctifier
4 Fiend Hunter
4 Huntmaster of the Fells
17 creatures

4 Faithless Looting
4 Farseek
4 Grisly Salvage
4 Mulch
4 Unburial Rites
20 other spells

Sideboard
4 Appetite for Brains
3 Cathedral Sanctifier
2 Purify the Grave
3 Ray of Revelation
3 Slaughter Games