Magar spell reanimator

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Reanimator Spellslinger Storm

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Land (36)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x War Room

Instant (14)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Blood for the Blood God!
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Kill! Maim! Burn!
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Cluestone
• 1x Rakdos Locket
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (15)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 1x Filth
• 1x Karlach, Fury of Avernus
• 1x Keeper of Secrets
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Viashino Lashclaw
• 1x Void Maw

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Aether Snap
• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Change of Fortune
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Devils' Playground
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fevered Suspicion
• 1x Howl of the Horde
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Ashling's Prerogative
• 1x Dauthi Embrace

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Instant (8)

• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Grip of Desolation
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Kill! Maim! Burn!
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Twinferno

Creature (3)

• 1x Filth
• 1x Keeper of Secrets
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Howl of the Horde
• 1x Immolating Gyre
• 1x Invoke Despair
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Wheel of Fate

Land (1)

• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Ashling's Prerogative
• 1x Blood Mist
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Invasion Plans

Artifact (3)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Glaring Spotlight

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Magar seems like he’s just begging to be broken wide open. He is also in an interesting space in Unfinity in that, of the eternal legal legends, he seems to be the only one revealed so far that doesn’t need dice or attractions to do his thing. Right now, the focus is to put a big spell like All is Dust, Blood for the Blood God!, or Demonic Tutor in the graveyard, reanimate it as a 3/3, and connect for its effect. That is why the deck is heavy on ways to make creatures unblockable. This has the downside of the fact that these spells are so impactful that they become must-answer threats, so some form of protection like Whispersilk Cloak, or a way to grant haste like Lightning Greaves become absolute requirements.

Right now, the deck works, but it folds hard to graveyard hate, as most reanimator decks do. It also folds to most forms of board disruption because the spells themselves get exiled if they go anywhere but the board. This is why Void Maw is important. He sets up a replacement effect that allows me to exile the spell under his effect instead of its own, which allows me to get it back if it gets removed. There are several spells I am considering adding from the new 40k decks, specifically the chaos one, but at its root, I think I need to improve my interaction with my opponents’ interactions. Being able to threaten game if I have Savage Beating in my graveyard and Magar on board is great, but I need ways to protect it on the stack.

Shortlist for cuts Show

Alhammarret's Archive - Doesn't further my gameplan, and gets me alarmingly close to decking myself from big wheels. This will also overfill my hand, and with no way to unlimit my hand size (intentionally), this can result if me throwing a lot of stuff away without good ways to recur it.

Archfiend of Ifnir - Very strong, but only if I am wheeling. Otherwise it just makes stuff a bit smaller.

Change of Fortune - I think I have enough wheel effects that I do not need more. I have found I typically am not hell- or heckbent, so I seldom need to play catchup.

Fireshrieker - Win more card, if I connected once, the game is already going my way, I don't need the damage from the double strike

Fiery Confluence - I can almost never deal 3 across the board to creatures, because that locks my spells in exile, so I will only be able to kill X/2's with this. The other two modes are nice, but they aren't as impactful as I would like. Something like Kill! Maim! Burn! has more consistently valuable modes.

Grapeshot and Tendrils of Agony - I think I overvalued storm when building this deck, thinking I could easily get 10+ spells into play, and connecting with them each turn. In practice, I seldom can maintain more than 2, and have only seen a maximum of 4 or 5 in play at a time. I think I will cut grapeshot first, and keep tendrils for the lifegain.

Professor Onyx - I am not running Chain of Smog as a combo piece, and I only really have her in the 99 for her magecraft ability. Her +1 and -3 are each independently strong, but not particularly synergistic with the rest of the deck.

Ransack the Lab - I have better ways to dig.

Planned Replacements Show

Ashling's Prerogative

Feed the Swarm

Filth

Howl of the Horde

Keeper of Secrets

Kill! Maim! Burn!

Plague Wind

Twinferno

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.59
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Devil 1/1 R, Treasure
Folders	Owned EDH Decks, EDH, RAKDOS