
Try to get your graveyard to the point where the opponent needs to use their hate cards, but you haven't committed all of yours. Second: Against one-shot effects such as Surgical Extraction and Faerie Macabre, you play around graveyard hate by not using all your graveyard pieces at once. The most common of these cards is Nature's Claim, because the most powerful graveyard hate cards are enchantments & artifacts (note how many of the hate cards you mention fall into this category). For example if you're expecting the opponent to have Leyline of the Void, bring in something that can kill enchantments. Cards like Spell Snare, Mental Misstep and Annul protect your graveyard for minimal costs.įirst: Sideboard in anti-graveyard hate. On the positive side: when going the counter route, the hoser spells' low costs and specific type can be to your advantage. But if you go against a dedicated graveyard hate sideboard, you're going to have a tough time either way, because as you already pointed out with your list of hate cards, all those cards are cheap and have either a static or an instant-speed activated hate ability. Give the opponent as little an opening as possible. Trying to be faster loses against Leyline of the Void, and possibly against cheap permanent or instant-speed graveyard removal.Įither way, you should always try to discard your fat guy and reanimate it in one go if possible. You either need to spend a turn removing a hate card, or you need to keep enough mana open to counter one. Unfortunately, control typically conflicts with Reanimator's strategy of bringing a fat guy on the table as soon as possible. Google "reanimator control" for deck lists.

Black is notoriously bad at dealing with artifacts and enchantments, so you probably need white ( Disenchant) and/or blue (countering) as well. A) be faster than the hater (except against Leyline of course, only white control helps against that): The fastest combo is Swamp, Dark Ritual, Putrid Imp/ Entomb, discard, Exhume.ī) control your opponent's solutions.
