Old Rutstein reanimator

Duel Commander BG (Golgari) Combo Reanimator

Mephystopheles

Lands (36)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 4x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tomb Fortress
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Check opponent hand (2)

• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Grief

Draw (2)

• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Palantir of Orthanc

Both combos (1)

• 1x Recurring Nightmare

Grave hate (1)

• 1x Cling to Dust

Reanimation (13)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Persist
• 1x Soul Exchange
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x From the Catacombs
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Living Death

Big creatures (10)

• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Harvester of Misery
• 1x Alpha Deathclaw
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Titan of Industry
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Apex Altisaur

Removal (5)

• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Collective Brutality

Combo 1 (4)

• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord

Biland Cycling creature (2)

• 1x Generous Ent
• 1x Troll of Khazad-dum

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Tutor (7)

• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Buried Alive

Combo 2 (4)

• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

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Maybeboard

Tutor (8)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Vile Entomber

Reanimation (1)

• 1x Wake the Dead

Creatures (5)

• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Primaris Eliminator
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Tyrranax Rex
• 1x Terastodon

Removal (2)

• 1x Cut Down
• 1x Long Goodbye

Discard (2)

• 1x Duress
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek

Grave hate (2)

• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Endurance

Mana (1)

• 1x Dryad Arbor

Protection (1)

• 1x Veil of Summer

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Ramp + reanimator to put big threat on the board as early as possible. Combo as a plan B

Combo 1 :
reanimate broodlord, tutor saw in half.
saw in half broodlord, tutor sacrifice & recurring nightmare. sacrifice on a copy to get mana.
reanimate broodlord, tutor buried alive, put archon & eternal witness in grave.
loop :
eternal witness get back saw in half. saw in half eternal witness to get back saw in half and sacrifice.
sacrifice on archon of cruelty, reanimate it by sacrificing a copy of eternal witness.
saw in half the other copy to loop.
kill with archon etb


Combo 2 :
with reanimation on razaketh or broodlord, assemble orcish, thragtusk in grave, recurring nightmare, earthcraft & and basic land enchanted that give you black mana (forest with utopia sprawl or swamp with wild growth)
loop : sac orcish to reanimate thragtusk, tap thragtusk and army for 4 mana, sac thragtusk to reanimate orcish, tap orcish & beast for 4 mana.
kill with orcish etb.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.13
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Blood, Copy Clone, Dungeon: Undercity, Food, Insect 1/1 G, Orc Army, Rhino Warrior 4/4 G, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure