Budget Abzan Reanimator- "IASSAGDBSCPCOOTGWSE"

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Budget Dredge Ramp Reanimator

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Instant (7)

• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Once and Future
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Unmake
• 1x Utter End

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Breath of Life
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Gather the Pack
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Recollect
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Restock
• 1x Resurrection
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Vigor Mortis
• 1x Zombify

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Vessel of Nascency

Artifact (6)

• 1x Abzan Banner
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (29)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Armada Wurm
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Greater Sandwurm
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Molderhulk
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Pelakka Wurm
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Reya Dawnbringer
• 1x Rot Farm Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Land (37)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Graypelt Refuge
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 7x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Commander (1)

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Instant (1)

• 1x Cast Down

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Winding Way
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mind Stone

Creature (8)

• 1x Charging Binox
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Kraul Swarm
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Wood Elves

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"The name of my deck is 'I Ain't Saying She's A Grave Digger, But She Certainly Pulls Creatures Out Of The Graveyard With Startling Efficiency'" -Alex Steacy, 2012

While Alex may have been running Sheoldred, Whispering One as his commander in the classic episode of Loading Ready Run's "Friday Nights", I have always strongly felt that Teneb, the Harvester would serve as an excellent reanimator commander, giving access to three colors while repeatedly allowing the player to reanimate every combat. But alas, as a broke college student, I have toiled for many years trying to cultivate a decklist that won't break the bank. And thus, in the construction of this commander deck, I had a clear vision- I wanted to quickly and reliably reanimate large threats while not exceeding a 50$ budget. I'm looking for tips and suggestions on how to improve the efficiency of this list on a budget. Here's a walkthrough on how the deck currently functions.

REANIMATION TARGETS: BIG DUMB IDIOTS

What's a reanimator deck without a bunch of big dumb idiots to pull from the graveyard? Here is my suite of budget reanimator targets.

• Archetype of Endurance protects your creatures

• Armada Wurm provides 10 power with trample

• Ashen Rider blows things up and provides 5 power in the air

• Engulfing Slagwurm blows things up and blocks like nothing else

• Greater Sandwurm 's cycling ability makes it easy to get into the graveyard and provides 7 power with pseudo-evasion

• Molderhulk may not be as impressive in combat, but it comes with an untapped land that we may have milled while filling our graveyard. Plus, it can be cast from our hand in a pinch.

• Pelakka Wurm is simply hilarious. 7 life? Sure. Card draw after it gets hit with the inevitable removal spell? Why not.

• Terastodon blows up three non-creature permanents. It's my dream to reanimate this on turn 4 and blow up somebody's entire manabase.

• Ulamog's Crusher blows up two permanents every combat. I love this card. It's so evil.

REANIMATION TARGETS: UTILITY

Not only are we running a bunch of huge fatties, but we're also running a suite of utility creatures to be reanimated at whim.

• Acidic Slime is prime enchantment/artifact removal

• Merciless Executioner forces our opponents to sacrifice creatures, while we can choose to have the executioner sacrifice itself, allowing us to take advantage of the effect over and over again. Of course it's fair- the effect is symmetrical! ;)

• Plaguecrafter is a more versatile Merciless Executioner

• Ravenous Chupacabra gives us excellent creature removal

• Reclamation Sage has less of an impressive body than Acidic Slime but it may be worth running multiple copies of enchantment/artifact removal.

• Reya Dawnbringer is the most important reanimation utility creature in the deck. If you have the chance, reanimate this before anything else, and reanimate it as quickly as possible.

• Syr Konrad, the Grim generates an absurd amount of value for us by damaging our opponents.

REANIMATOR SPELLS

As the unwieldy name of our deck illustrates, our commander does, indeed, pull creatures out of the graveyard with startling efficiency. But Teneb only does so after a heavy investment, and sometimes we might not have the mana for that. I believe any good commander deck should still be able to operate properly with it's commander chilling in the zone- therefore, we're running a few reanimator spells that can be resolved before Teneb, the Harvester enters the battlefield.

• Breath of Life

• Doomed Necromancer

• Resurrection

• Stitch Together (because Threshold is incredibly easy to reach in this deck)

• Unburial Rites gives us so much value. It can still be used if we accidentally mill it. What a phenomenal card.

• Vigor Mortis gives us a counter on the reanimated creature 90% of the time

• Zombify

MILL SHENANIGANS

In order for our strategy to operate properly, we need to fill our graveyard with those sweet sweet reanimator targets.

• Buried Alive is amazing in this deck. Remember- always hit Reya Dawnbringer first. But I also suggest grabbing some removal in the form of Ashen Rider or Acidic Slime and another big dumb idiot like Engulfing Slagwurm or Ulamog's Crusher with the other two slots of this spell.

• Commune with the Gods mills for 5 most of the time, but can also grab us a utility creature

• Gather the Pack mostly functions as a second copy of Commune with the Gods

• Grisly Salvage puts in so much work by grabbing us a land

• Jarad's Orders puts ANYTHING into the yard

• Mulch grabs lands. Super important. A land in the graveyard is a land wasted.

• Nyx Weaver fills me with so much nostalgia. I pulled a couple of these in the first ever piece of Magic product I ever received- the Fate Reforged Clash Pack back in 2015. To the kind Wizards employee that gave me that clash pack for free at Pax South 2015, thank you for introducing me to this amazing game! Of course I wanna run my little buddy Nyx Weaver in my reanimator deck. It fills the graveyard AND recurs a utility card.

• Ransack the Lab grabs ANYTHING from the top 3

• Rot Farm Skeleton has pseudo-Dredge

• Satyr Wayfinder insures we hit those early game land drops

• Shambling Shell allows us to Dredge regularly

• Stinkweed Imp is one of the most powerful and iconic Dredge cards in the game

• Vessel of Nascency grabs land, of course we want it

RECURSION

Most of the time, there's no such thing as too much mill. But for the times when we accidentally mill that Zombify we've been looking for, we're running some recursion.

• Once and Future grabs two cards for cheap

• Recollect

• Regrowth

• Restock

• Skullwinder , because Eternal Witness is a five dollar card and I'm broke

RAMP

Graveyard shenanigans are expensive. By ramping our mana base, most of the time we're pulling land out of our library, meaning that we're more likely to hit reanimator targets on our mill spells. Here's our Ramp suite.

• Abzan Banner gives us late game card draw

• Avacyn's Pilgrim , Elvish Mystic , and Elves of Deep Shadow are mana dorks in all three of our colors

• Far Wanderings gives us absurd value off of Threshold

• Farhaven Elf can be reanimated and is amazing at fixing our mana

• Golgari Signet and Selesnya Signet are useful, cheap rocks

• Sakura-Tribe Elder can also be reanimated

• Springbloom Druid ramps and fixes

MISC UTILITY

Here are some other utility cards that help generate value in different ways.

• Colossal Majesty gives us absurd card draw off of our reanimation targets

• Crux of Fate mostly kills everything except our beloved commander, allowing us to get a head start on rebuilding our board

• Doom Blade , Mortify , Putrefy , Unmake , and Utter End round out the removal suite

• Duneblast also kills everything except our commander

• Geier Reach Sanitarium makes everyone at the table happy through card draw while allowing us to discard our reanimator targets

• Key to the City gurantees our commander's ability triggers while allowing us to discard another reanimator target

• Rogue's Passage gives our commander evasion

• Swiftfoot Boots hastens our reanimated fatties and protects our commander

• Whispersilk Cloak protects our commander and insures the triggering of the reanimation ability through evasion

Thank you for reading! Please be sure to leave your budget suggestions below and be sure to upvote!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.81
Tokens	Elephant 3/3 G, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample
Folders	Budget Decks