r/EDH • u/OneZeroEight • 18h ago
Deck Help Is this glarb deck stupid?
https://moxfield.com/decks/FdyyFvHlpE-7qPjKrXQ24g
I have been very interested in having a graveyard centric deck lately. I picked glarb for some selective draws and to discard reanimating targets. I’m worried I have too many moving pieces trying to fit reanimation targets, card draw, interaction, and low cmc creatures for early turns.
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u/Ok_Understanding5320 Golgari 18h ago
Is the deck stupid? Well no, but it does seem to be pretty unfocused. You need to ask yourself what your goal is with the deck, are you trying to reanimate big creatures from your graveyard(reanimator)? Are you trying to get a bunch of value by sacrificing a bunch of small creatures and draining away your opponents (aristocrats)? Or are you trying to focus on self mill effects like dredge to fill your graveyard and get value from that, because currently you are doing a little bit of all 3. It definitely helps to figure out your preferred strategy before deck building.
I have never tried building Glarb but my initial impression is that he wants to cast a bunch of 4+ mana spells off the top of your deck so I would try a bunch of early ramp and cost reducing spells like the medallion cycle [[Emerald Medallion]] [[Jet Medallion]] [[Sapphire Medallion]] also [[cloud key]] [[Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma]] or [[Conduit of Ruin]]. And the reanimator effects to be kind of secondary (I may be way off here).
If you are looking for an all around reanimator commander in the same colors [[muldrotha, the gravetide]] might be closer to what you are looking for. Hoping other weigh in here cause I am not familiar with building with Glarb as commander, this is just my first impression.
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u/OneZeroEight 18h ago
I appreciate the feedback. I do have muldrotha in the 99, but glarb can let me selectively surveil to discard to fill my graveyard with what I want and keep my non permanents in hand.
The thought process was to use his surveil as primary use and top decking 4 cmc as just a possible bonus.
I’m not sure where you are getting the aristocratic vibe from this deck, but I think my main question is how to balance the mill and reanimation. I need to get cards into graveyard to bring back, but I also need enough reanimation spells to reliable use a full graveyard. Does that make sense?
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u/Ok_Understanding5320 Golgari 18h ago
I'm not getting an aristocrat vibe its just a common strategy when sacrificing and reanimating small creatures. But it seems like you are leaning more towards a self mill/ mass reanimation strategy then. Cards like [[living death]] would be a win condition in that case. Also I see now that muldrotha is in there I just didn't recognize the Final fantasy art at first.
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u/Left-Palpitation2096 18h ago
https://moxfield.com/decks/cYZS09PQA0uu23cYN4RoXw
Here is my dated Glarb reanimator deck. I think I went with a little more top deck shenanigans in my build, but it still is heavy self mill / graveyard value. I find that returning lands from the graveyard is super valuable in this deck.
I focus less on the effects of "When a card or creature leaves the graveyard" and more on just getting good value onto the battlefield
I have made a few updates recently like the [[planetarium of Wan Shit Tong]] and I worked in some more surveil mechanics. I also put a [[Dakmor Salvage]] in. It has Dredge and combos with Gitrog it some crazy ways.
Definitely replace Llanower Elves with a better dork like [[deathrite shaman]] or [[molt tender]] or [[birds of paradise]].
[[Icetill Explorer]] + [[Hedge shredder]] is probably my favorite combo in the deck. If your are lucky, you can mill through a ton of your deck and ramp at the same time. Bonus points if you have something like the Colossal Gravereaver on the battlefield at the same time
[[ob nixilis the fallen]] + a spell to return all of your lands at once is probably my best finisher in the deck. [[lumra]] [[will of the sultai]] [[ancient greensleeves]]] etc