Streets of New Capenna is having a pretty profound impact on Standard. We’re seeing a swath of new and innovative strategies come out of players. Well today, we have a deck that comes from one of my favorite players, Eliott_Dragon. He played this deck in Stream League 11, and it was pretty wild. He embraced his inner Necromancer, and while he didn’t take top 8, he did pretty well.
4C Reanimator
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So the deck that we’re looking at today is 4 Color Reanimator, and boy oh boy is it spicy. Let’s break the deck down in it’s early and end game plans.
Early Game
Our early game is honestly pretty straight forward. We’re primarily a Grixis deck, that utilizes some early game creatures and planeswalkers to establish ourselves on the board. Additionally we are looking to put some big creatures in the graveyard to reanimate later.
Now what’s nice about these creatures cards is that these are great sacrifice fodder for our
Spirit-Sister’s Call
Spirit-Sister’s Call
At the beginning of your end step, choose target permanent card in your graveyard. You may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with the chosen card. If you do, return the chosen card from your graveyard to the battlefield and it gains "If this permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."
. We also leverage
Maestros Charm
Maestros Charm
Choose one —
• Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
• Maestros Charm deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
as a versatile removal spell, and a way to fill the graveyard.
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End Game
For our end game plan, we’ve set up ourselves to have some beefy creatures in the graveyard, a decent board presence, what are we doing? Well, we turn into that Necromancer.
Our primary reanimation source is Spirit-Sister’s Call. We sacrifice one of our early game, tiny creatures and get back one of our monsters. Which monsters?
First off, we hvae
Cemetery Desecrator
Cemetery Desecrator
Menace
When this creature enters or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one —
• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
, which hasn’t seen a ton of play in constructed. But here, it’s great because we can basically remove counters from planeswalkers or kill a creature. Next up is
Titan of Industry
Titan of Industry
Reach, trample
When this creature enters, choose two —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Target player gains 5 life.
• Create a 4/4 green Rhino Warrior creature token.
• Put a shield counter on a creature you control.
, which we’ve talked about how good this card is. Lastly, we have a lone
Toxrill, the Corrosive
Toxrill, the Corrosive
At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
{U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.
which is a great anti-aggro tool.
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Sideboard
For the sideboard, we have some lessons to fetch up with
Eyetwitch
Eyetwitch
Flying
When this creature dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
, and a bunch of anti control tools. There’s a few really cool cards in this sideboard.
Orvar, the All-Form
Orvar, the All-Form
Changeling
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.
is a really cool edition to this deck. Particularly,
Go Blank
Go Blank
Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.
is a pretty great sideboard card against us, and so we can at least get some value out of discarding a card.
Kotose, the Silent Spider
Kotose, the Silent Spider
When Kotose enters, exile target card other than a basic land card from an opponent's graveyard. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. For as long as you control Kotose, you may play one of the exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
is a
Surgical Extraction
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
style of effect, but it let’s us cast the cards that we exile as long as we control Kotose. There’s a ton of great cards that we can hit off this, so it’s very versatile.
Lastly, we have a one off reanimation target against control,
Lord Xander, the Collector
Lord Xander, the Collector
When Lord Xander enters, target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded down.
Whenever Lord Xander attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded down.
When Lord Xander dies, target opponent sacrifices half the nonland permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.
. This will give us a major advantage against control because we’re stripping them of cards on all fronts. They discard no matter what if he enters play. If we untap and can attack, they mill HALF of their library, and if they kill him, they sacrifice permanents.
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I’m sure that this deck may need some fine tuning, but for a first pass, the deck is super cool. Definitely a really fun looking deck, so give it a try!