As many of you may know, Reanimator is a deck that
involves getting large creature from the graveyard
into play. Since Oddessy came out, people have been
experimenting with Reanimator variant in Extended,
placing in top 8 at some of the events. So why not
have some in Type 2? The main engine of the deck is
Buried Alive and Entomb along with reanimating cards.

Buried Alive
Color: Black
Casting Cost: 2B
Card Type: Sorcery
Card Text: Search your library for up to three
creature cards and put them into your graveyard.
Shuffle your library afterward.

Entomb
Color: Black
Casting Cost: B
Card Type: Instant
Card Text: Search your library for a card and put it
into your graveyard. Shuffle your library afterward.

Both of the cards allow you to get creatures into your
graveyard, so all you would need then is a way to get
them into play. There are 6 cards in Type 2 that can
get creatures from your graveyard into play. They are:
Zombify, Death, Twilights Call, Breath of Life, Death
or Glory, and Reya Dawnbringer. Death or Glory and
Death are far inferior cards, and Twilights Call can
help your opponent also, getting their creatures back
from the graveyard. Reya is a creature also, so that
would fit the deck very nicely, as after it is
reanimated it will reanimate other creatures. Reya is
a Legend though, so it wouldn't make sense to have
more than two, but in this deck one would be fine. The
deck is then left with an engine that would look like
this:

3 Buried Alive
4 Entomb
4 Zombify
4 Breath of Life
1 Reya Dawnbringer

All that remains then is a good set of creatures.
Obviously, since the deck doesn't care about how much
a creature costs you can get away with some very big
creatures. Some good creatures to consider are:
Vampiric Dragon, Penumbra Wurm, Iridescent Angel,
Crosis the Purger, Darigaaz the Ignitor, and
Spiritmonger. A good set of creatures might look like
this.

1 Vampiric Dragon
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Crosis, the Purger
1 Darigaaz, the Ignitor
2 Spiritmonger
1 Penumbra Wurm

You can very easily get away with single copies of
creatures, due to the fact that you get them in the
graveyard and then no longer have to worry about them,
as they will come back eventually. The only problem is
if they get stuck in your hand you might not be ale to
cast them. This is not something to worry about in
most cases though. So all together the deck would have
this:

3 Buried Alive
4 Entomb
4 Zombify
4 Breath of Life
1 Reya Dawnbringer
1 Vampiric Dragon
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Crosis, the Purger
1 Darigaaz, the Ignitor
2 Spiritmonger
1 Penumbra Wurm

That is 23 cards, leaving a total of 37 slots left in
the deck. So the next step is to come up with a
variety of support spells. The deck can already
support black and white, but we should be able to use
red also, as red mana is needed to abuse the Vampiric
Dragon. So it can support white, black, and red. For a
list of support spells you might try this.

4 Terminate
4 Duress
4 Gerrard's Verdict

The Terminate can pick off certain creatures early on,
allowing you to survie until the deck goes off, and
the discard will help against control alot. All that
is needed is land, so with the land the deck may look
like this.

3 Buried Alive
4 Entomb
4 Zombify
4 Breath of Life
1 Reya Dawnbringer
1 Vampiric Dragon
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Crosis, the Purger
1 Darigaaz, the Ignitor
2 Spiritmonger
1 Penumbra Wurm
4 Terminate
4 Duress
4 Gerrard's Verdict
4 Urgborg Volcano
4 Sulfurous Springs
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Plains
9 Swamp

That is what a type 2 Reanimator deck would look like
as of right now. You can e-mail me at:

lordmagus_99508@yahoo.com

I hope my article helped to give a little insight on
the deck.

Knut Koeneman