Sabotage
x3
1
Seek Power
x4
2
Herald's Song
x4
2
Quarry
x4
2
Sporefolk
x4
2
Trail Maker
x4
2
Whispering Wind
x4
3
Feln Cauldron
x4
4
Stirring Sand
x4
5
Grasping at Shadows
x4
6
Heart of the Vault
x4
8
Great-Kiln Titan
x4
9
Emerging Colossus
x1
9
Lavablood Goliath
x1
10
Scourge of Frosthome
x1
Fire Sigil
x2
Primal Sigil
x2
Shadow Sigil
x2
Time Sigil
x4
Seat of Chaos
x3
Seat of Cunning
x2
Seat of Fury
x1
Seat of Impulse
x3
Seat of Mystery
x4
Seat of Wisdom
x2
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What do you think?
EDIT: I forgot to mention how much I love Quarry and how much I want it in my reanimator. It does everything we want for this archetype, and I think it plays very well with strategize, I may attempt to switch some things around and I have not given up on this yet.
TLDR; this list looks great but crumples to everything I came across, we are still missing the tools we need to play a 4 color reanimate deck.
instead of 1x Herald's Song and 3x Blind Storyteller, you go with 4 Herald's Song
4x Feln Cauldron instead of 4x Nocturnal Observer
8 additional discard outlets in the form of Whispering Wind and Sporefolk
4 additional reanimation spells through 4x Grasping at Shadows (although it's more like 2 additional since skee's list runs 2x Excavate)
4x Seek Power and 3x Sabotage instead of 3x Seek Power and 4x Torch
4x Quarry instead of 3x Strategize
have you played his list before and could you comment on how it feels in comparison to your current brew?
i'm definitely a fan of Feln Cauldron over Nocturnal Observer as a primary discard outlet because nightfall always feels wrong, but i imagine overall this current list lacks the sort of like interactivity that skee's list has through things like Torch, Talir's Intervention, and defense against aggro with bodies like Lunar Magus and Nocturnal Observer
anyway, just spitballing
Without question this list is extremely light on interaction. Unlike the more traditional sentinel reanimator builds, I eschew a normal gameplan that would allow you to play as a control deck until you are able to hardcast Heart of the Vault and Great-Kiln Titan (frankly, the influence in this deck is strained enough that trying to hardcast Heart of the Vault is frequently a lost cause). Instead, I added more discard outlets and reanimation spells in order to increase the consistency of the primary reanimation plan-when you only have 4 reanimation spells you are not particularly likely to draw one by turn 4/5. With 8, on the other hand, I see an early reanimation spell in most games. As I alluded to earlier, adding the fourth faction made the influence necessary to play this deck fairly virtually untenable, and for a deck that is so reliant on an unfair gameplan, getting caught with interaction in hand instead of combo pieces is very much a way to lose games. My original list played In Cold Blood, but I ultimately cut those because they were so likely to sit in my hand.
TL;DR, this list is different than the traditional sentinel reanimator deck because it is 100% a combo deck. I would like to add some amount of interaction, as losing to aggro is a problem, but it would need to also help me resolve my core gameplan. I have considered devastating setback and will likely try it, but I have concerns about the SS cost.
when you mentioned the struggle of hard-casting Heart of the Vault, it made me think of Stonescar Leviathan which has seen some success recently with Dizo, Cabal Chairman and made me wonder if there's a possibility of some kind of possibility for a goofy FTS reanimator (but i'd almost certainly be awful)
https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/7vSawn-cTW4/dizo-leviathan