Not related to this deck, but Kiora seems pretty awesome for any blue reanimator. Use with 1-3 No One Left Behind's, because this gives you a 2 mana Kiora from the grave if that's what you need. And the draw/discard engine keeps going, and Kiora's own 8/8 threat keeps reoccurring while you are just cycling for the real setup. Instead of your hand being clogged by expensive reanimates when you can't use them, NOLB can be used in the 2 mana mode to get a Fallaji or Kiora or whatever, and that's the kind of gas the situation needed. Great vs counterspells too, because you get to do valuable small mana plays in the early game rather than having a staring contest and floating your mana for T4-7. Make them first deal with a few Kiora's and then see if they have the answer for the real bomb. This just happens as a byproduct of using 2 or 3 mana for cycling, because Kiora ETB is already moving your gameplan forward. The creature is just a (hefty) bonus that has to be dealt with. She makes reanimating way less clunky and all in, is what I'm trying to say. Maybe there's an even better way to build a Kiora Reanimator, than with NOLB. Interesting to see where it ends up.
There are so many avenues with this deck, great work Xaero 👌
Probably the most consistent reanimator imo
Not related to this deck, but Kiora seems pretty awesome for any blue reanimator. Use with 1-3 No One Left Behind's, because this gives you a 2 mana Kiora from the grave if that's what you need. And the draw/discard engine keeps going, and Kiora's own 8/8 threat keeps reoccurring while you are just cycling for the real setup. Instead of your hand being clogged by expensive reanimates when you can't use them, NOLB can be used in the 2 mana mode to get a Fallaji or Kiora or whatever, and that's the kind of gas the situation needed.
Great vs counterspells too, because you get to do valuable small mana plays in the early game rather than having a staring contest and floating your mana for T4-7. Make them first deal with a few Kiora's and then see if they have the answer for the real bomb. This just happens as a byproduct of using 2 or 3 mana for cycling, because Kiora ETB is already moving your gameplan forward. The creature is just a (hefty) bonus that has to be dealt with.
She makes reanimating way less clunky and all in, is what I'm trying to say. Maybe there's an even better way to build a Kiora Reanimator, than with NOLB. Interesting to see where it ends up.