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it also dominated parts of the Standard meta when it first came out

Youre going to need a lot of mana and/or cost reduction effects to always be able to copy your spells

If you rely mainly on creatures, which is very possible to do thanks to all the great black options that have been printed in recent years, then Mai offers extra pressure at no cost to you

It provides early interaction and late-game card advantage, which is exactly what those decks want

This led to the concept of a reanimator deck focusing on Celes's initial journey of "getting the gang back together" to take down Kefka, using the graveyard to represent her lost teammates

Then you can sweep the sky of flyers and deal damage to them