Grim Reaper, Lethal Legionnaire

Whenever Grim Reaper attacks, you may pay {3}{B}. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

ReanimationAttack triggersHumanVillainLegends matter

How do you want this deck to play?

Core themes

What the commander does best.

Harvest of the Fallen

Attack, pay four, and drag your biggest dead creature back into the fight, tapped and swinging.

ReanimationAttack triggersRecursion

340 cards fit this theme

The Sinister Legion

Gather a rogues' gallery of Villains and legendary menaces, then let Reaper bring the fallen ones back.

VillainLegends matterReanimation

70 cards fit this theme

Reap It Again

Extra combats and attack triggers give Reaper more swings and more chances to raise the dead each turn.

Attack triggersExtra combatEvasion

294 cards fit this theme

Stretch themes

Off the beaten path, but they work.

Sown Corpses

Sacrifice your own creatures for drain value, then reap them back as attackers with finality counters.

Death triggerSac outletsSac fodderReanimation

399 cards fit this theme

Boneyard Buffet

Mill and surveil yourself into a huge graveyard, then choose the best corpse to bring back.

Self millGraveyard sizeReanimation

203 cards fit this theme

Second Helpings

Reanimate creatures with enter-the-battlefield triggers and blink them for repeated value every attack.

ETB valueReanimationBlink

516 cards fit this theme