Junk Reanimator by Pryce

Format: Commander

Commander: Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This Abzan deck uses Thalia and The Gitrog Monster to generate mana tempo and card advantage while slowing opponents down. The commander forces opposing nonbasic lands and creatures to enter tapped and allows an extra land drop every turn. The primary game plan centers on assembling a classic graveyard reanimation loop using Reveillark, Karmic Guide, and Phyrexian Altar, with drain pieces like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, or Zulaport Cutthroat eliminating all opponents in a single turn. Dense tutoring suites via Buried Alive, Survival of the Fittest, and Demonic Tutor ensure fast assembly. If the graveyard line faces resistance, the deck pivots smoothly into token swarms and lethal combat damage with Avenger of Zendikar and Craterhoof Behemoth. Strong proactive protection from Grand Abolisher and Myrel, Shield of Argive safeguards win attempts from opposing removal and countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Archon of Justice
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Dauntless Escort
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat