This deck DESTROYS the Standard meta! | Rakdos Reanimator | MTG Arena

[@cardgamesletsgo2079]

Seriously, I'm so sick of having to play infinite removal spells because of mono red. Not ban worthy, but definitely annoying as hell.

[@AesirOdinn]

Not only mono red, but the other turbo-agro variations. The boros mice with protection spells is specially annoying cause of the mice that grows and explodes after dying, dealing yet MORE damage on the way out. It's boring as hell

[@HandsomeJules]

Yup, it makes it so that you cannot play anything you want to play competitively because you will lose most games that you do not have removal. Makes for a very boring linear format. There’s so many cool cards and decks that are in standard, but you just cannot play any of them competitively because you will die by then 2-3 vs Red.

[@Midnightv]

You realize if agro isn't there?You're just going to lose to some very tailored control deck.

[@kgx8805]

FOMO might just be my favorite card printed this year. I played it in every deck since Duskmourne released. And especially in Reanimator with the Overlord it’s so good. Also Feed the Swarm is great in the SB for Rest in Peace. I like the Molten Collapse addition as well, makes a lot of sense to have a main deck flexible removal for vacuum and anything else that’s relevant.

[@Ashlizzlle]

Fomo is incredible

[@_Ve_98]

Not my fav but I love the complexity it has in a relatively small amount of text. Forced discard, requiring delirium and additional combat that just untaps a single creature... I could write an entire essay just listing all possible interactions this little bastard has.

[@PillowRat101]

That Torch the Tower had me cackling omg what 🤣

[@YaGirlJuniper]

36:40 - ????????????? Opponent apparently forgot whose mouse that was or something. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?? THAT LITERALLY JUST EXILES IT SO IT DOESN'T DO ANY DAMAGE. ITS TOUGHNESS WOULDN'T EVEN BE HIGH ENOUGH TO SURVIVE IT STILL WOULD DIE EVEN IF IT DID ZERO DAMAGE. Did they play the wrong card or something??? ... No, because a few seconds later we see their hand empty out and all they had was a land and an Emberheart Challenger. They didn't have any other cards. ... okay. Okay I think I'm starting to get what happened. They must be used to doing that with shock, which is what they mainboard, and doing that would increase the damage it deals on death... but they boarded in Torch the Tower to deal with Valgavoth's Faithful, and they forgot that this is a different spell which exiles if it would die this turn, and this causes it to do zero damage instead. Maybe they thought it had to die to Torch the Tower's damage? But one would think the person with the most knowledge of how this works would be someone who plays red aggro, since it's always being used against them.

[@joshuahakakian1553]

If there are no attacks/effects, you may not get priority back. In paper, a common shortcut is saying go in first main - this is similar. Both players pass prio, end up in end step. Oppo passes prio because they already played a land and have no spells to play. I don’t think it should work like this, by the way, but I do believe this is WHY it happened

[@XaeroGames]

absolutely love this deck!

[@tns4]

Hey it’s Xaero!! The reanimator king!!

[@tns4]

Hey it’s Xaero!! The reanimator king!!

[@SleepEatWorkRepeat]

Awesome you played Jasonlau! I love his decks.

[@binbhrf]

void going back in the sideboard peeps

[@DavidDoncheck]

Or main deck…

[@jefferyepstien5926]

I personally like Porcine Portent with a splash of white for artifact/enchant removal in my reanimator. It's a solid instant speed exile for 3. Playing it as the enchant then the pig that removes enchants/artifacts is a bit expensive (4 for pig, 2 for removal) but it seems to work for me. (I play a lot of alchemy, i realize thats not a standard legsl card)

[@CaleChipzzz]

Valid

[@cams9865]

Just played a few games with this deck, feels great to play. Another great brew

[@miskatonicuniversityavclub202]

The very first deck i made when the last set came out was a mono black re animator, valgs faithful is amazing. Id play out the survivor first to attempt the tutor or eat removal then drop some slashers then valg eventually. You casually drop the faithful and liliana ideally to use minus 2, then next turn discard the valg and watch them rage quit

[@TheSoulDivided]

Deck looks super fun; wish I had anywhere close to enough Wildcards to play it lol

[@_Ve_98]

Perfect summary of the Arena economy. One day wizards will learn that if you let people have fun while playing your game they are more likely to give you money.

[@GuysInGreenHats]

played against this today. I was playing UB and they didn't expect me having my own Abyssal Harvester to take their atraxa's and valgavoths :)

[@Cal-fr9mw]

Cacophony and heartfire hero can go or you get rid of the adventure spell that’s a one mana fling

[@tristanwells6874]

heartfire hero? If I had to choose it'd be deep-cavern bat. It's just slightly too high over a kitesail freebooter

[@_Ve_98]

Very easy to remove though, especially with wraths. It does contribute to decks needing far more removal, but it's not as warping as the mouse since it can easily be a dead card in some matchups. Hero demands removal while also trading profitably with it (still damages you) and easily outgrowing many of the cheaper ones.

[@curtiss9038]

reanimator decks are so well positioned right now!

[@Ashlizzlle]

its true!

[@Zetsumari]

15:15 why not haste Zombify Atraxa and haste it before combat?

[@connectingthepieces4845]

Just back into arena. Should i spend all my wild cards on this or occulus/kiora? Always loved reanimator decks

[@Jawzah]

Sacrifice got Vampire Gourmant and Infetation Sage in Fooundations.. Not sure if they improve sacrifice decks but perhaps could a bit.

[@SwekosAgain]

Absolutely destroyed this deck using your simic terror build last night hahaha

[@Sylvr369]

36:44 Sparky, is that you?!?

[@Eheth1958]

I want to see a dimir reanimator with the scholar

[@this19suffering]

Nice deck but sadly I have a bad time playing Ash's decks most of the time. Not bc they are bad but Arena hates when I play them idk. It is not just with her decks and it is really frustrating. Can't win with the simic deck bc I get matched against Zur Overlords most of the time for example.

[@Prom591]

Ugh, one more deck my mono-blue Eluge will struggle with....

[@percivalgraves521]

I find it soo difficult to play Reanimator strats in BO3. Every Reanimator deck so far seems very inconsistent. The ammount of times you just sit there searching for your combo pieces and doing nothing are really frustrating. Also, i dont know if its just me, but game 2 my Reanimator deck literally stops working because everybody has Frillbacks, RIPs, Vacuums and Lanters left right and center.

[@FiberOptikAssassin]

Never played Bo3 funny how the shuffler also hates that format too sometimes

[@Dexisfree]

i love destroying red decks :)

[@Ashlizzlle]

SAME

[@mkormos89]

36:47 "wtf??" :D

[@_Ve_98]

I'm one of the assholes running 4 sunfalls in main and even I think it's a disgusting card that should never have been printed. That said, you can't ban it while red has so many "fling on death" triggers and ways to buff stuff. I hate how warping cheap exile wraths are against graveyard decks (I'm a reanimator girlie at heart) but sadly a 5 mana exile Wrath is a necessary evil in this meta. Also, at least Farewell rotated and we now can play artifacts and enchantments again.

[@sixsix4867]

nah, ban beans

[@ReCo281]

Beans drawing a card when it enters the battlefield was a mistake

[@Vael221]

Beans only feels as strong as it does because of Leyline Binding and Sunfall. It's still good but way less obnoxious without those.

[@rasmusdrongesen2721]

I have a problem with the new deck I have made I never get to kill my opponent because they all scoop at round 3-5 So I am curious to see how long the deck last before some of the cards gets banned from standard. Because thats usally how it goes I make a good deck and 2-3 weeks later several of the cards gets banned and the deck is ruined.

[@Ashlizzlle]

we love to hear it

[@rasmusdrongesen2721]

@ all black 75% destruction/forcing opponents to sacrifice (in order to work around protection from black and hexproof) Then alot of cheap 1/1 - 1/2 deathtouch creatures for defence. The downside is that deck is hard to make work within 60 cards. Weakness of the deck is enchantment/artifact destruction as in if your opponent has too much of it. If they only have a bit of it its fine. Painfull Quandary to force my opponent to discard a card or take 5 damage whenever the cast a spell Grevious wound just for quick damage and because spells like corrupt deals damage and not “Life lost” And with small 1/1 death touch your opponent either blocks and both creatures die or they take 1 damage and then loose half their life. And if they do block I Virtue of persistence to bring back monsters + sheoldred who can be turnes into a an saga where the last saga brings all monsters from all graveyards into play under my control combined with ALOT of destruction so I can quickly fill my opponents graveyard. I have not seen anyone not scoop whe. I flip Sheoldred. But thats why the deck is weak against enchantment/artifact destruction. Rush of the Dread is also fun to play (Ups 50% of of my opponents life is gone) really usefull when your opponent has alot of lifegain. I did try to combine it with blue(mill) but it didnt work so well. And when you have Phyrexian Obliterator on the field alot of players are hesitant to attack.