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Griselbrand
Legendary Creature — Demon
Flying, lifelink
Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
ViscountVonSausageRoll on Temporary Graveyard
4 days ago
I can tell when you played xD
And hey, don't sell yourself short, casual 60 card is the epitome of magic.
Budget Suggestions (≤ $10): Griselbrand because he's awesome, Dark Ritual because speed, Go for the Throat or alternatively: I see you're running Bone Shredder. Perhaps considering replacing with Shriekmaw? He's less hardcastable, but he does throw himself into your graveyard in a hurry. Consider Buried Alive to fill the GY? Vampire Nighthawk has been replaced with Nighthawk Scavenger I know, the powercreeper has been powercrept.
Non-Budget Suggestions ($10+): Archon of Cruelty. I mean, read what it does. Right? That's ridiculous.
Recurring Nightmare It's pricey, but it's absolutely busted. (It sacs a dude and bounces to your hand as an additional cost) It never goes away.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier Honestly not my cup of tea, but she's very powerful.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Only because: It's just good in this deck. You're already running Liliana of the Dark Realms x2 and Coffers. Maybe find some heavily played ones?
Make Room: The most unfun part of coming back to any old deck. Well, Liliana Vess is just too expensive now days (even back then she was kinda pricey), but most of the time she ends up being a 5 CMC vampiric tutor at sorcery speed anyways. She never lives long.
Sorin Markov kind of falls under the same boat, at least in this deck imo. Usually by the time you can cast him, opponents aren't at 20 life anymore, so the appeal of "10 dmg" can be somewhat deceptive.
Anyways, welcome back, and I hope you enjoy yourself
Gidgetimer on Budget Meren Eldrazi EDH
4 weeks ago
Griselbrand is Grisel-banned, so it probably isn't a good idea to add him.
jethstriker on turn 1 Iona, sheild of …
2 months ago
Some of my thoughts:
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Griselbrand is a much better all purpose target than Iona. I recommend maxing Griselbrand count first before maxing Iona.
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Collective Brutality is a swiss army knife for Reanimator. Its an uncounterable discard outlet, pre-emptively answers opposing countermagic and removal, kills problematic small creatures, finishes off weakened opponent, and at the very least gives back some life lost from Reanimate and Griselbrand activations.
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Buried Alive is slow for Reanimator. If you really want this, maybe just run 1, but not the full 4.
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Why is The Stone Brain in the deck? If you're worried of opposing card, I think you're far better off with discard like Unmask and Thoughtseize. They also doubles as a discard outlet if you really need to.
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Also why casual? The deck is 1 card away from being legacy legal. Just replace Sol Ring with maybe Lotus Petal and you have a legitimate constructed deck.
legendofa on turn 1 Iona, sheild of …
2 months ago
no
Casual
SCORE: 1 | 58 VIEWS
How much money are you willing to spend on this deck? Atraxa, Grand Unifier and Archon of Cruelty are popular reanimator targets right now, and I see Griselbrand already in the decklist.
legendofa on "Meta-less" format?
3 months ago
Okay, I dug a little deeper into the Legacy Reanimator lists on mtgtop8.com, and target cards like Atraxa, Grand Unifier, Archon of Cruelty, Grief, and Griselbrand, and support cards like Dark Ritual and Dauthi Voidwalker show up in almost every deck, but in different proportions. Still, that's a pretty condensed and consistent core. It's easy enough to see which cards get played, but the "meta-similar" rule is going to need more sophistication.
jethstriker on Any cheap mana permanent with …
4 months ago
Emrakul has presence in legacy. With the exception of traditional reanimator, any deck that tries to cheat out a creature has a high chance of having an Emrakul in it. Emrakul and Griselbrand are hand in hand the prime choice of creature to cheat out in legacy.
DemonDragonJ on Is WotC Being Cautious About …
7 months ago
Using life as a resource has been part of the game for nearly its entire lifespan, and I am especially fond of that strategy, since life is a resource that is very easy to accumulate, but it seems to me that WotC is being cautious about printing cards that allow players to use life as a resource; for example, permanents that allow a player to pay life either can be used only once per turn, require payment of mana in addition to life, or produce an effect that is redundant when used repeatedly. Furthermore, When WotC revisited phyrexian mana in Phyrexia: All Will Be One, that mechanic was severely decreased in power compared to its original appearance in New Phyrexia by appearing less frequently and being used only for activation costs, not for casting costs. Also, cards that allow a player to pay life rarely ever also allow a player to gain life, with Griselbrand being one of the are few cards that combine both effects.
I suppose that I understand WotC's reason for this, because being able to pay life too easily can easily become a very powerful effect, given how easy it is to gain life, but I still am rather displeased by that, since I like being able to gain and pay life.
What does everyone else say about this? Is WotC being cautious about allowing life to be used as a resource?
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