Hell Mongrel

Creature — Nightmare Dog

Discard a card: This gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Madness {2}{B} (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

leovolt884_ on Dead Metal II: Rage

3 months ago

You can lean hard into Kuldotha Rebirth + Dread Return. I think it's a way more interesting combo than just using Exhume like most reanimator decks. Generally I find pauper reanimator a boring archetype but this could be really cool. Churn through your deck with Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion, etc. Play setup cards like Gold Pan to give you an artifact plus more mana and lategame potential equipment. Crashing Drawbridge is a board wide haste enabler, and an artifact if needed. If you want to lean harder into reanimating artifact creatures, Argivian Restoration is a neat reanimator spell. Notably it also ramps you if you target an artifact land which is funny. Cleansing Wildfire can target your indestructible artifact duals to ramp you a basic and draw you a card for 2 mana which is awesome interaction. I would avoid using Exhume if possible because by giving the opponent a blocker, even if you trample through it, it will make you take longer to kill the opponent and give them more time to remove your threats and disable your deck. It also works against your removal by giving them their scariest cards you already spent resources removing back for free.

Overall I would focus on having fewer but stronger reanimator targets and just using Dread Return + Kuldotha Rebirth. Play some madness cards like Dark Withering, Brain Gorgers, Kitchen Imp, Terminal Agony, Hell Mongrel, Reckless Wurm, etc. That way you're playing cheap aggressive threats with your Dark Ritual's and Lotus Petal's while filling your graveyard with your hyper efficient discard. Less worrying about casting as many reanimation spells and more focus on being aggressive while you set up will get you the damage you need early on to deal with blockers and close the game quicker.

immakinganezehaldeck on Anje Reanimator (Casual CEDH)

2 years ago

11/23/22 - Madness update

I'm really low on madness cards. Needs to be far higher for an anje deck.

IN

• Emergence Zone - adds a lot of sorcery speed options into gorger loop

• Cloudstone Curio - infinite mana combo with Dockside + a creature iff dockside makes enough mana to cast both.

• Revolutionist - if in gorger loop, can loop instants (and sorceries if anje is there too.)

• Alms of the Vein - sorcery for above

• Fiery Temper - instant for above

• Violent Eruption - instant for above

• Distemper of the Blood - can also get looped with Revolutionist

• Hell Mongrel - discard outlet WITH MADNESS

• Bag of Holding - Shadow of the Grave effect

• Asylum Visitor - madness

• Kitchen Imp - madness

• Bloodhall Priest - madness and etb trigger that kills with gorger

• Terminal Agony - madness

• Necrogoyf - madness

• Malevolent Whispers - madness

OUT

• Mountain

• Cremate

• Eat to Extinction

• Smelt

• Theater of Horrors

• Syr Konrad, the Grim

• Blasphemous Act

• Funeral Rites

• Mastermind's Acquisition

• Tormenting Voice

• By Force

• Bolas's Citadel

• Bolt Bend

• Thrill of Possibility

• Erebos's Intervention

NOTES

Removed most end game threats + interaction that didn't have madness, since madness tech needs to be there in high density and the deck can win through that stuff mainly.