MTG Timeless Rakdos Victimize VS Green Creature Ramp Game 1

Back in early 2010, I have witnessed legacy games where people used the famous entomb + reanimate combo or dark ritual + buried alive combo to win games or make the situation very difficult for the opponent. I never had a set of entomb or reanimate because those were some of the MOST expensive and hard to find cards in MTG. I have always fantasized myself playing in a big tournament with my imaginary reanimator deck.
But now thanks to MTG Arena, my dreams finally came true! I never knew how insane they were until yesterday! I mean I have a lot of decks and playtested hundreds, maybe thousands for over 14 years now, and these include not just my decks but my friend's decks as well. But I have NEVER tested a reanimator deck until yesterday.
I know there are some turn 2 and 3 win decks in timeless including channel and show and tell decks. What I can say about this deck is that it is not a turn 2 or 3 win deck but if you have the correct hand or draw the correct pcs and if you cast it in the early turns, it will make the situation very difficult for the opponent.
4 ornithopter
3 barrier of bones
4 dark ritual
4 faerie dreamthief
4 reanimate
4 faithless looting
2 collective brutality
4 victimize
4 rampaging spiketail
4 troll of khazad-dum
4 gloomfang mauler
3 swamp
2 mountain
4 blackcleave cliffs
4 blood crypt
4 bloodstained mire
4 polluted delta
The deck can run on 18 lands! It had alot of ways to search for a land if needed but for this playtest, I have used 19. You can choose to use 4 barrier of bones and remove 1 swamp if you wish to try it on your own.
Why ornithopter? because if you need to cast victimize on the 3rd turn, you need a creature and ornithopter is the best option because it's free! Victimize + Reanimate gives you a ton of options to finish the game but here are my observations
- You MUST have a faithless looting, victimize or a reanimate in your opening hand.
- In my opinion, you need to have 12 large creatures for victimize to work.
I can use some large legendary black creatures but I chose the ones with swampcycling so they themselves can go to the graveyard from your hand AND they help with searching for lands when needed.
I really enjoyed playing this deck that is why I had more than the usual number of games I tested using this and I do hope you enjoy watching these games as much as I did!
I will upload new versions for this deck if I made some updates.
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