Chainer's Value Reanimations

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos)

MagusofTheFork

Land (35)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Memorial to War
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 8x Swamp

Mana (8)

• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Rakdos Locket
• 1x Wild-Field Scarecrow
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Seal of the Guildpact
• 1x Grave Upheaval

Discard Rewards (4)

• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Horror of the Broken Lands

Value Creatures (16)

• 1x Goblin Cratermaker
• 1x Miasmic Mummy
• 1x Anje's Ravager
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Rotting Regisaur
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wildfire Devils
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip
• 1x Spitebellows
• 1x Swift Warkite
• 1x Archfiend of Spite
• 1x Meteor Golem

Discarders (8)

• 1x Call the Bloodline
• 1x Anje Falkenrath
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Deal Broker
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Jaya Ballard
• 1x Bedlam Reveler

Spice (8)

• 1x Sinister Concoction
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Burning Vengeance
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound

Commander (1)

Back to Hand (8)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Soul of Innistrad

Madness Spells (8)

• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Avacyn's Judgment
• 1x Murderous Compulsion
• 1x Fiery Temper
• 1x Violent Eruption
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Dark Withering

Squee & Friends (4)

• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Pyrewild Shaman
• 1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 1x Undead Gladiator

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The following is mostly speculation. While I have played with the Madness Precon deck using Chainer as the commander I have not played this particular build. I'll update later when I have experience playing the deck as well as if I swap any cards out.

Normally with a reanimator deck you are looking to put high CMC creatures into the graveyard so that you can use reanimation spells to put them into play for much less mana. Chainer isn't good for that because you have to pay the CMC of whatever you want to bring back from the graveyard. So instead this deck uses cheap creatures that provide a lot of value if cast multiple times. There are also a few neat things specific to using chainer here. As Chainer is letting you cast a creature you can spend alternate costs so evoke is really strong here as well as triggering burning vengeance. Unlike a similar commander, Karador, Chainer doesn't limit you to using his ability during your own turn. Mostly this just means you can use him to play cards for their madness cost on other peoples turns but it does also mean you can cast flash creatures on opponents turns. There is only one in the deck but its a strong one; Garna. Garna can act as pretty good boardwipe insurance as you can discard her (or something else if she's already in the graveyard) to Chainers ability in response to a boardwipe, wait for it to resolve then cast Garna from your graveyard to put all the creatures that just died back into your hand.

Another thing Chainer does is let you give creatures haste. Just discard the creature to chainers ability and then use his ability to cast it from the graveyard. The main two creatures that utilize this interaction are Doomed Necromancer which lets me pay only 4 mana to get back the bigger creatures from my graveyard and Tree of Perdition which can threaten to put a player to 13 life without giving them a turn to deal with it first.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.72
Tokens	Emblem Jaya Ballard, Vampire Knight 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	MTG DECKS, EDH 25