The best way to use Necromancer is taking advantage of it putting a cheap body on the field every turn, leveraging that with a Temple of Moloch to go mana-positive or to sneakily drop a Gnarled Wendigo or for a cheap Swap target.

I'm not interested in doing that. I want to make skeletons instead. I like the cards that use skeleton tokens to recur themselves from the cemetery, like Fowl Bones and Bone Jumble, but I think they're probably not as good as generically-good magic like Magic Missiles and it's probably just better to sac a token to Bone Spear. I pulled a foil Draconian Bonekite and I'm going to use it, god damn it. I also really like Those Who Linger but six mana for that effect probably just takes too long. If this is a typal deck, it's got to execute something like an aggro plan by default. There's enough removal to slow down a game a little, and cards like Master Necromancer and Crawling Congregation weight the top end pretty heavy for a typical aggro plan, so this plays a bit more midrange than straight up "play skeleton smash face".

It's rare to *need* more than six mana, though. I took a slightly older version of this list to my first local event on February 7, 2026 and went 2-1, which felt pretty good.

Skeletons!

@Anathema