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Upgrade Goals The stock list is already quite good, so we're just going to focus on improving what's already here with minor tweaks: Enhance our main Graveyard theme, both Creature Reanimate and Spellslinger Upgrade our ramp and card draw Add some more graveyard hate LOTR-Only Upgrade If you want to upgrade the deck using only cards from the LOTR set then there's still plenty of sweet additions: the best is Sauron, the Dark Lord which is just an amazing value engine all by itself but has added synergy in our deck since we can use it to set up graveyard stuff

His ability to drain life from opponents whenever they cast a spell makes him a formidable opponent, whereas his lifelink ability ensures that he will remain a potent threat on the battlefield

However, I was pleasantly surprised by what came in the box

Theres so much going on with enhancing counters: Winding ConstrictorWinding Constrictor Branching EvolutionBranching Evolution Hardened ScalesHardened Scales In addition to cards with proliferate: Contagion ClaspContagion Clasp RadstormRadstorm Recon Craft ThetaRecon Craft Theta You might be losing life when you mill from the rad counters, but so will your opponents