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Aug 1 – Oct 29, 2026 · 6,531 decks · 698 events · updated Oct 29

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Reanimator

1.4% of decks (#19)+0.2 pts (not significant)89 decks, 11 winsmedian list €404

Black reanimation combo: Putrid Imp discards Akroma, Angel of Wrath or Phantom Nishoba, then Reanimate or Exhume returns it in the first turns.

Key cards

  • Exhume, art by Carl Critchlow

    100% · 4.0×

  • Reanimate, art by Robert Bliss

    100% · 4.0×

  • Putrid Imp, art by Wayne England

    95% · 4.0×

  • Akroma, Angel of Wrath, art by Ron Spears

    97% · 3.6×

  • Phantom Nishoba, art by Arnie Swekel

    90% · 3.7×

  • Sickening Dreams, art by Scott M. Fischer

    87% · 1.9×

Share of lists playing each card main deck, and copies when played. Card art by Carl Critchlow, Robert Bliss, Wayne England, Ron Spears, Arnie Swekel, Scott M. Fischer; images from Scryfall, ©Wizards of the Coast.

What changed

No big changes to report: no card moved by 20 points or more across months with at least 20 lists.

The list over time

Share of Reanimator lists playing each card (main deck), by month (last 12 months). Cards that moved most are on top; basic lands are left out.

MainSideboard
MonthWeek
% of listsAvg copies
Reanimator main deck: % of lists playing each card, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. Rows grouped Moving, Flex and Core; n = card lists per month.
20252026
CardNovn=10Decn=15Jan (ban-list change: Parallax Tide banned (2026-01-18))n=15Febn=24Marn=23Aprn=19Mayn=18Junn=14Juln=17Augn=12Sepn=15Octn=12Feb→Mar
Moving · inclusion swung ≥ 20 points
Duress50275346743772433542330+28
Unmask201347386553676441333342+28
Symbiotic Wurm302033507437115712252733+24
Verdant Force606747507468837165505367+24
Undiscovered Paradise808073713542397141676058−36
Gemstone Mine907373834358445747836092−40
Lotus Petal708773884353566465836792−44
Careful Study808780833958506459837392−44
Underground River708780833958505759837392−44
City of Brass908767833547445765926075−49
Phantom Nishoba8080808835847264651008092−53
Flex slots · 8 cards
Life // Death506033587474786476928075+16
Sickening Dreams605340506526445741759392+15
Visara the Dreadful4033273348260361881333+14
Animate Dead9073807583536179536760100+8
Akroma, Angel of Wrath809380838374941008810093100−1 (not significant)
Spirit of the Night00131740070078−12
Rorix Bladewing60334038223750503581325−16
Multani, Maro-Sorcerer403333331758502918174033−16

Core · in ≥ 84% of lists every month · 5 cards · show as rows

0%100% of listsn = card lists that month (dimmed under 50; months under 20 are faded and ignored for grouping). ⊘ = ban-list change. Select a cell to see those decks.

Share of the field

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026; the shaded band is the selected range, dashed lines are ban-list changes.

View as table
Reanimator share of the field by month
MonthShare
Nov 20251.0%
Dec 20252.1%
Jan 20261.3%
Feb 20262.2%
Mar 20261.6%
Apr 20261.5%
May 20261.1%
Jun 20261.0%
Jul 20261.3%
Aug 20261.5%
Sep 20261.2%
Oct 20261.4%

Cost to build

€404 median of 39 lists

80% of lists cost €336–€474 (range €280–€1,185). Cheapest printings, Cardmarket 2026-10-30.

Where the money goes

Typical list (closest to the average): Martijn Natens, FNM @ Outpost (Gent, Belgium) (opens MTGTop8) · €396

Results 89

Aug 2026 – Oct 2026

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Decks and events open on tcdecks.net or MTGTop8. Price: the list (main + sideboard) at each card's cheapest Cardmarket printing (2026-10-30); ≈ when a card has no price; – when the deck has no card list.

About this data: variant names, source labels, classification

Variant names

MTGTop8 deck names

  • Mono Black Reanimator3

Source labels

names the sources gave decks mapped here

  • Reanimator89

How decks were classified

see Methodology

  • tcdecks label86
  • MTGTop8 label3