Terra, Reanimator by James803

Format: Commander

Commander: Terra, Herald of Hope

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Terra, Herald of Hope as a repeatable, evasive graveyard recursion engine. By triggering Trance at combat, Terra mills two cards, gains flying, and returns creatures with power 3 or less from the graveyard to the battlefield whenever she deals combat damage to an opponent for a payment of two mana. The deck capitalizes on power-3-or-less bridge creatures like Karmic Guide, Sister Hospitaller, and Priest of Fell Rites to immediately reanimate massive, high-impact game-enders such as Sun Titan, Aurelia, the Warleader, Archfiend of Depravity, and Sepulchral Primordial. A supporting suite of self-mill, targeted graveyard tutors, and sacrifice outlets fuels steady card flow and board expansion. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and instant-speed combat removal, the deck features redundant recursion lines and broad removal to outvalue opponents and overwhelm the table through resilient combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bloodfeather Phoenix
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Flamewake Phoenix
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Havoc Eater
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Phoenix Down
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejoin the Fight
  • 1 Rekindling Phoenix
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Skyfire Phoenix
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber