Most notably it was just the best end-game you could build your deck towards, but its not clear that is really the case anymore as there are cards like Nexus of Fate that can go much bigger
Any free spell enabler is just nasty good in all of the places
If you like the idea of playing a more controlling Reanimator deck, but dont want to be quite as reactive and one-dimensional as Hemsley, I think theres a lot of room for an Esper Midrange version of Reanimator, possibly along these lines: Creatures (10) Planeswalkers (6) Lands (33) Spells (31) I actually didnt set out to build this as a Yorion deck, but I realized the deck was all three-ofs and that my mana would get better if I just added one copy of everything, and Id draw my tutor targets less often, so the Yorions mostly a freeroll on changes that I think improve the deck anyway
Then you can exile a graveyard and gain a bunch of life, ramp out two lands of any type not just basics tapped, make a pair of 2/2 Bear tokens, or toss a pair of counters on all of your stuff for the going wide, and with the Bears as a default that's two 4/4s for six mana on a naked board
1 20 of 73 cards where the text includes return and the text includes instant and the text includes from your graveyard Baldur's Gate Wilderness Dungeon Crash Landing Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle
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