Wilhelt, Grave Defiler

Commander / EDH MegaMatt13

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Rivals of Ixalan Update —Feb. 15, 2018

Made some pretty big changes to the deck lately. I've found that draw spells that allow me to pick which cards go to the graveyard are more efficient than indiscriminate mill spells. I've thrown in Careful Study, Compulsive Research, Thirst for Knowledge, Monastery Siege, and Frantic Search to reflect this.

I've removed spells that ONLY mill my opponents (like Memory Erosion and Consuming Aberration) as they were too high variance.

I've also cut the number of counterspells from 6 to 4 to make room for more creatures that can be reanimated which is the focus of the deck. Sepulchral Primordial and Diluvian Primordial take their place. I had previously avoided them due to high CMC but I actually don't care about CMC TOO much with creatures since I am typically reanimating them for 4 anyway.

Animate Dead and Necromancy have been put back in. Sometimes I just need cheap reanimation when Scarab God is offline.

Two surprising removals from the deck are Illusionist's Bracers and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. The first one I found very difficult to get online, paying 3 to equip and then trying to reanimated for 4. it was just too mana intensive a lot of the time. Gray Merchant is out because he can only be reanimated once with the Scarab God. He is a great finisher in decks that can abuse reanimating him repeatedly which isn't the case here.

Ravenous Chupacabra is the one addition from Rivals of Ixalan as an affordable ETB kill creature.