Overview:

A graveyard-focused deck that leverages land recursion, cycling, and dredge mechanics to generate value through landfall triggers and reanimation strategies. The deck aims to control the board while building a strong creature presence through both tokens and reanimation.

Primer:

The deck centers around The Necrobloom's ability to generate value from lands entering the battlefield and enabling dredge from the graveyard. The primary gameplan involves using cycling lands and dredge effects to fill the graveyard while maintaining card advantage. Key engines include Life from the Loam, Crucible of Worlds, and various cycling lands to ensure consistent land drops and trigger landfall abilities.

The secondary strategy involves reanimation through cards like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Living Death, allowing the deck to recover from board wipes and establish threatening board states. The deck can pivot between aggressive token generation through landfall triggers and a more controlling strategy using cards like Astral Slide and Astral Drift to protect creatures and disrupt opponents.

Weaknesses:

• Vulnerable to graveyard hate like Rest in Peace or Leyline of the Void
• Relies heavily on maintaining a consistent land drop sequence
• Can struggle against fast combo decks due to its relatively fair gameplan
• Limited instant-speed interaction outside of creature exile effects

Most Important Cards:

1. Life from the Loam
2. Crucible of Worlds
3. The Gitrog Monster
4. Avenger of Zendikar
5. Living Death
6. Astral Slide
7. Currency Converter
8. Fluctuator
9. Eternal Witness
10. Aura Shards

Attribute Ratings:

• Speed: 5/10
• Resilience: 7/10
• Consistency: 6/10
• Interaction: 6/10

Rating Justification:

This deck operates at a focused casual to optimized casual level, typically establishing its engine around turns 6-8. While it includes powerful value engines and interaction, it lacks the explosive fast mana and quick win conditions found in higher-powered decks. The deck's strength lies in its ability to grind out long games and recover from setbacks, rather than racing to an early victory.

Final power level rating: 5.0 - 5.5

The deck sits comfortably in the optimized casual range because it:

1. Has a coherent strategy with multiple synergistic pieces
2. Can generate significant value over time
3. Includes answers to various threats
4. Lacks the speed and consistency of higher-powered decks
5. Wins through incremental advantage rather than explosive plays or infinite combos

The land base is well-constructed with 37 lands total, including utility lands and cycling lands that support the strategy. The color distribution is balanced, with sufficient sources for each color and numerous ways to fix mana through land tutoring effects.