{"ops":[{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glarb, Calamity's Augur"}},{"insert":" — SULTAI REANIMATOR/COMBO PRIMER\n===============================================\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Bracket 4. The infinite combos, game changers, and general play patterns mean this isn't a deck for lower brackets."},{"insert":"\n\nSTRATEGY OVERVIEW"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-----------------\nThe goal is to get Glarb on board ASAP, play spells and lands from the top of our library, and quickly work towards a big combo line explained below or just simply out value our opponents through reanimation lines.\n\nREANIMATOR SUITE: BOMBS VS. ENABLERS"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"------------------------------------\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Bombs worth reanimating"},{"insert":"\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lumra, Bellow of the Woods"}},{"insert":" - power/toughness equal to lands you control, mills 4 and returns every land from the yard tapped on ETB. A landfall payoff every time she comes back.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Koma, Cosmos Serpent"}},{"insert":" - 7/7, uncounterable, indestructible, hexproof with another Kraken/Leviathan/Octopus/Serpent out. Hard to remove, a real clock.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Bahamut"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valgavoth, Terror Eater"}},{"insert":" - your biggest bodies. Valgavoth also exiles anything headed to an opponent's yard, cutting off their recursion. Never worth hard-casting when you can cheat either in.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Muldrotha, the Gravetide"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Gitrog Monster"}},{"insert":" - engines more than stats; either one online means replaying permanents from the yard every turn.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Archon of Cruelty"}},{"insert":" - a classic target. ETB makes an opponent sac, discard, and lose life.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Ways to reanimate them"},{"insert":"\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reanimate"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Animate Dead"}},{"insert":" - cheap, most efficient recursion pieces.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Superior Spider-Man"}},{"insert":" - enters as a copy of any creature in any graveyard, exiling the original. Reanimation and theft in one and also gets cast triggers, there aren’t many we care about in this deck but important to note for theft.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ardyn, the Usurper"}},{"insert":" - Reanimation/Graveyard hate every turn, either bringing something back from our yard or exiling key creatures from our opponents yards. Bonus that what you reanimate gets ETB, menace, lifelink, haste. Ardyn itself is a prime mid/late game reanimation target for us, we never are planning to cast Ardyn for full cost.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Muldrotha, the Gravetide"}},{"insert":" - her own recursion engine once she's out.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breach the Multiverse"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rise of the Dark Realms"}},{"insert":" - mass reanimation, tagged as wincons because either can flood the board hard enough to end the game.\n- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conduit of Worlds"}},{"insert":" - casts straight from the yard, a slower repeatable version of the same idea.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"COMBO LINES"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-----------\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thassa's Oracle"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Demonic Consultation"}},{"insert":"\nCast Thassa’s Oracle, with Thassa’s ability on the stack, cast Demonic Consultation and name a card not in the deck. If the spells and ability resolve, you win the game.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Warren Soultrader"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Forsaken Miner"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vengeful Bloodwitch"}},{"insert":" (All 3 cards can be tutored out with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Protean Hulk"}},{"insert":" death trigger.\n1. Pay 1 life, sac Forsaken Miner to Warren Soultrader for a Treasure.\n2. Forsaken Miner dies, Vengeful Bloodwitch triggers: opponent loses 1, you gain 1.\n3. That trigger targets an opponent, which is a crime, which lets Forsaken Miner return for {B}.\n4. Crack the Treasure for the {B}, repeat.\nZero net cost to you; each loop drains an opponent for 1.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Emergent Ultimatum"}},{"insert":" is in the deck in case the game goes long or your early combo lines were disrupted. We have plenty of Ultimatum targets in the deck: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breach the Multiverse"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valgavoth, Terror Eater"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Expropriate"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lumra, Bellow of the Woods"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rise of the Dark Realms"}},{"insert":", Pick trios where losing any one card still leaves you in great shape - if you can, always include Expropriate in your Ultimatum pile because then you are kind of guaranteed to get your other 2 options since no one wants to give you extra turns or theft.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Finale of Devastation"}},{"insert":" is another way to push for combo lines tutoring up Protean Hulk or Thassa’s Oracle if you have Demonic Consultation in hand already but it’s also a great way to close a game if you have a few creatures on board and the game has dragged on. At X ≥ 10, creatures get +X/+X and haste on top of the tutor (which should almost always be a creature with flying for some evasion).\n\nMULLIGAN STRATEGY"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-----------------\nMulligans are pretty easy in this deck. You want your colors, ideally a piece of ramp, and then something to do besides just bombs in hand like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kitsa, Otterball Elite"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aftermath Analyst"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Collector's Vault"}},{"insert":". \n\nI did want to mention a fun opening hand: The turn-2/3 fast reanimate. Watch for one true top-end bomb - "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lumra, Bellow of the Woods"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valgavoth, Terror Eater"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Protean Hulk"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Archon of Cruelty"}},{"insert":"; or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Koma, Cosmos Serpent"}},{"insert":" plus "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reanimate"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Animate Dead"}},{"insert":" and the black mana to cast it early. Draw for turn, skip your land drop, discard the bomb to hand size at end of turn, then reanimate as early as turn 2. Only worth it with the true top end and if you have a hand of 7 - starting that far ahead that early is what wins games. It’s not worth doing this for a mid-tier threat.\n\nGLARB’S TOP DECK MANIPULATION"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"----------------------------------------------------------\nPlay from the top whenever you can, especially lands to keep the top of your deck castable/always drawing non-lands if possible.\n\nSurveil aggressively. Tap Glarb, Calamity's Augur right before your turn after holding him up as a deathtouch blocker and bin anything you can't use or cast next turn. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Enhanced Surveillance"}},{"insert":"and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blessed Respite"}},{"insert":" can shuffle the yard back if you need those cards again, and most of what you'd surveil away is still live through reanimation or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conduit of Worlds"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Muldrotha, the Gravetide"}},{"insert":" effects anyway. Default to binning if you can’t immediately use it, not keeping cards on top for future turns. Fetch lands also do extra work here, if you like the card on top, wait to crack the fetch and if you don’t like the card on top, you can fetch it away.\n\nDECK CATEGORIES"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"---------------\nI put a lot of work into tagging cards in the way they fit in the deck, feel free to take a look at the multiple categories.\nTag | Role | Notes\n0 - Land | Mana base | Heavy fixing, utility lands, land recursion\n1 - Ramp | Acceleration | Gets Glarb's 4+ MV top-deck plan online early\n2 - Draw | Card advantage | Rhystic Study and The One Ring are the engines\n3 - Fill Graveyard | Setup | Entomb is the most surgical piece\n4 - Use GY | Payoff | Reanimation and recursive value creatures\n5 - Disruption | Interaction | Removal, counters, Cyclonic Rift as a reset\n6 - Protection | Safety | Keeps key pieces alive through a combo turn\n7 - Tutor | Consistency | Small package — Finale of Devastation, Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria\n8 - Goodstuff | Efficient bodies | High-impact, no setup required\n9 - Wincon | Closers | Combo pieces and raw stat-check bombs\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Maybeboard"},{"insert":"\nThese are cards that go great in this deck and have been in the deck at one point or another. I edit the deck often as I want to try out different cards in the deck.\n"}]}