{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a grixis reanimator deck designed for bracket 3, with the potential for fast turn 1 or 2 reanimation lines and supported by a clone package. Obeka is used as a supporting tool for some of the deck's lines, but is not fully central to the deck's game plan. The goal of the deck design is to do the \"reanimator thing\" while also being able to play a balanced, interactive game. The price tag on the deck is high mostly due to prints, but I'll cover later how we can take this down to around $500 without changing how the deck plays.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Obeka Package"},{"insert":"\nIn this list, Obeka mainly supports a sneak attack line by ending the turn with the sneak attack sacrifice trigger on the stack. This should play out as t2 ramp, t3 obeka, t4 sneak + sneak activation.\n\nAdditionally, Obeka allows us to scale some of our sources of copy effects: Kiki-Jiki, Reflection of Kiki-Jiki, Electroduplicate, and Twinflame all benefit from this. Additionally, she gives us upside on Ideas Unbound and Starwinder's warp ability.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Fast Reanimation"},{"insert":"\nMy goal with this deck was to enable the core reanimator game plan - land fast, haymaker threats via the graveyard - while working to ensure the deck still feels good in strong, casual pods (bracket 3). To this end, let's talk fast mana. Dark ritual, Cabal Ritual, Gemstone Caverns, and Lotus Petal are in the deck to enable the nasty openers. Turn 1 we can go off with dark ritual or a lotus petal, plus entomb / reanimate. Ritual specifically gives us flexibility with 3 mana, allowing animate dead / exhume or unmarked grave to also be workable. Turn 2 cabal ritual can get us to 3, and fetches into surveil lands give alternate ways to grab hits. Vampiric Tutor, the one game changer in the list, is included mostly to top deck a reanimation target in response to the surveil trigger (\"we have entomb at home\"). Brainstorm lets us top deck something from hand in a similar fashion. Entomb, Unmarked Grave, and Vampiric tutor are in the deck mostly to feed our early reanimation lines as outlined above. Once out of the early turns, the deck usually wants to use our graveyard tutors to put Anger in the graveyard and give all our stuff haste. I've tried to balance the deck so that the fast mana lets it do the early reanimator thing without creating scenarios where the deck is able to put together wins faster than bracket expectations. Additionally, the deck does not - and in my opinion, should not - run sol ring. Sol ring lends fast starts, but colorless isn't super helpful in setting up early reanimation lines. This is another way we try to balance the inclusion of other fast mana tools. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Threats"},{"insert":"\nThe deck's threat package is built around it's bracket intent. I've tried to focus on card advantage, removal, and life gain, avoiding combo lines or reanimation wins that don't require combat to convert. Early Valgavoth or Archon is still going to be a massive problem, but we aren't looking to go for Hoarding Broodlord / saw in half lines or reanimate lock pieces like Gin Gitaxias or Sire of Insanity (Big Sheoldred and Archon are as close as we get here). If we get to choose a threat on turn 1, Reanimating Vilis to draw 8 or pulling Valgavoth to shut off other graveyard strategies is where we want to be. I've experimented with some burn inclusions (Kokusho, Gray Merchant, Terror of the Peaks) but have found that they make the deck feel more like combo and less like reanimator, which isn't what I'm going for. If you want to slot this type of effect in, I'd swap in Gray Merchant and Kokusho for Wurmcoil and Sire of Seven Deaths. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Currently play testing:"},{"insert":"\n\nPrismari - The deck runs 32 instants and sorceries so we have no problem chaining value off of storm. Floor is 7/7 flier with a decent ward ability, ceiling is storming into a win. So far I've found this to be absolutely bananas if we are able to start chaining even a little bit - Cabal Ritual, Snap, Frantic Search, and Dark ritual all can get us mana positive (although we struggle for blue / red mana a little) and clones can hit things like pinnacle monk and snapcaster to keep going. Chains end usually in mass copies via twinflame or sublime epiphany, and if we can set up Anger that's usually enough since we can often bounce most of the board as well. Hitting a ritual with decent storm count is key since we want to get into copying Mystic Confluence or Ephiphany which are mana hungry. So far this seems to be holding to bracket guidelines in terms of speed to set up, and I really like it.\n\nSilent Specter - this is a pet card from when I was a kid. Looking at this as counter play to unchecked green / simic ramp strategies, it's tough to do anything with all those lands when you're short on cards. Gives us a control endgame with Mirrorform or Naga Fleshcrafter effects. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Copy Package"},{"insert":"\nOnce we're out of the opening turns, the deck wants to pivot from a reanimation strategy to scaling its board to pressure the table and end the game. This is where the copy package comes into play. Overall it's fairly straightforward - if we have 3-4 Archons on board it's usually enough pressure, but it's worth calling out Mirrorform specifically as the sleeper card in the deck. Over the course of the game, the deck will accumulate a fair amount of permanents via playing rocks, making treasures, playing a sundial etc. Mirrorform can turn this state into a game ending swing out using an opponent's creature in a pinch. The key line here is turning your board into copies of Scrawling Crawler on a prior player's end step. This scales by a multiplier - each draw triggers a ping for each crawler (4 life at two crawlers, then 9, 16, 25, 36+) and is the deck's most \"out of nowhere\" winning line. A kicked Rite of Replication late game is our other big top-end haymaker and it also doesn't require much of anything on our own board except mana sources.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Interaction and Removal (15 total, with crossover)"},{"insert":"\nThe current goal of the deck's interaction is to provide a balanced selection of options that allow the deck to function blindly into unknown pods. Snapcaster and Pinnacle Monk provide options to recur most of our interaction suite, and clone effects can repeat wurm triggers, gearhulk, etc.\n\n2 Wraths: Massacre Wurm, Blasphemous Act\n4 Stack Interaction: Sublime, Arcane Denial, Sink into Stupor, Mystic Confluence\n9 On Board Removal: Soul Shatter, Sink into Stupor, Fell the Profane, Into the Flood Maw, Sublime Epiphany, Noxious Gearhulk, Bitter Triumph, Mystic Confluence, Snap\n2 Grave Hate: Soul Guide, Bojuka Bog\n1 Land Removal: Wasteland\n\nInteraction has been chosen for flexibility over best in slot choices. Making changes like swapping negate for swan song, etc. would make the deck stronger. I've found slight inefficiency and flexibility to be a good balance for the bracket when looking to run the fast mana pieces that the deck includes.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Building the Deck and Making it Your Own (+ Let's talk Price)"},{"insert":"\nOkay so let's address the top line first - this deck in it's cheapest printings right now is around $800-900 (gross). Here's how to get that down without changing the core of what this is intended to be.\nWheel of fortune is about half of that alone. This comes straight out and Windfall goes in."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Kiki Jiki is very, very good, but we can swap in Rionya at the same CMC and the deck arguably gets more explosive."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Landbase: we want the fetches and surveils, but City of Brass and Xander's lounge can be changed out for Path of Ancestry and Crumbling Necropolis with little impact. Bond lands are also easy swaps to save some money."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Vamp tutor is redundancy, best swap in would be a Careful Study but any low cost filter / surveil tools will give you similar utility."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAll in, those changes should cut the deck down without changing how it plays. Other than that, swap around the big creatures / reanimation hits & enjoy. The next big cuts would be fast mana (lotus petal, cabal ritual) and the fetch suite (fetches, surveil lands), but these changes would substantially weaken the deck's early openers. A version of this list with the recommended changes is linked below.\n\n(9/7/2026 - $500) https://archidekt.com/decks/26165301/obeka_reanimator_budget_recommendation\n\nAn even more budget version of this list can be found here, although changes to the fetch/surveil suite and fast mana make this much slower:\n\n(9/7/2026 - $200) https://archidekt.com/decks/26182349/obeka_reanimator_200ish_budget_version\n\nThis version also compromises on a lot of the threat suite in order to keep as many of the core lines as possible.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sideboard Package - Boom Pile"},{"insert":"\nThis is a block of cards that functions very effectively to win through non-combat damage. Clones of Gary or Kokusho drain the table out pretty quickly, and Rionya can set up a turn to do it all at once. I've pivoted towards combat-oriented wins since I've found that drain or combo wins haven't been as fun - but this is a personal preference call and I'm sure I'll rotate these cards into my list again.\n\nCuts: Mirrorform, Wurmcoil, Sire of Seven Deaths, Lightning Greaves\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sideboard Package - Combo Pile"},{"insert":"\nThis sets up a deterministic line using Kairi. We need:\n\nKairi on the field, Saw in half or Come Back Wrong, Cabal Ritual, 7+ cards in graveyard.\n\nCabal ritual gives us 5 mana, we spend 3 on saw in half or come back wrong. Kairi death triggers mill us and get us two spells back (Cabal + Saw). We cast cabal again with the remaining 2 mana and go back up to 5. Repeat to continue milling ourself until we get Rionya, Victimize, and Gray Merchant in the yard. Repeat the loop and return Cabal Ritual and Victimize, using victimize to sac Kairi and return Rionya and Gray Merchant. Rionya will see a ton of storm count, make a ton of Garys and drain the table.\n\nSaw in half, cabal ritual, and pinnacle monk will also net you infinite monks. With anger in the graveyard or an end of turn trigger skip with Obeka, we can convert this into a win.\n\nThis sets up pretty consistently, but similar to the Boom Pile I find it loses it's appeal once you've won this way a couple times. Fast mana in the deck also can set up wins faster than we want to in this bracket so be very careful about how you balance your early game if you're adding this in. Dark ritual and lotus petal are must cuts for speed considerations here. If you're looking to add a combo into the list, I would suggest adding saw in half to give yourself the Pinnacle Monk line - but avoid the Kairi combo.\n\nCuts: lotus petal, dark ritual, mirrorform, rite of replication, electroduplicate, lightning greaves.\n\nCut for saw in half only: electroduplicate \n"}]}