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I'm working on a casual deck based around the reanimator DTB thread over in the Legacy forums. However, I wouldn't dare post this in there so that I can get flamed about entomb's, reanimates, and thoughtsiezes. I loaded it with every card in the list that I had, and even got together some of the maybe cards and sideboard cards. This doesn't need to be that quick. I'm looking to invest another $10 into this deck and was wondering how best to use the amount.

4 x Putrid Imp
1 x Angel of Despair
1 x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 x Inkwell Leviathan
1 x Blazing Archon
1 x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
4 x Dispel
4 x Duress
1 x Entomb
2 x Reanimate
2 x Preordain
2 x Brainstorm
4 x Ponder
4 x Animate Dead
4 x Exhume
2 x Buried Alive
1 x Crystal Vein
1 x Ebon Stronghold
1 x Dakmor Salvage
2 x Dimir Aqueduct
1 x Lonely Sandbar
1 x Barren Moor
1 x Polluted Mire
1 x Bojuka Bog
6 x Swamp
6 x Island
 

And a "This really needs to be fixed" sideboard.

2 x Buried Alive
3 x Terastodon
2 x Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 x Cabal Therapy
3 x Sickening Dreams
1 x Sundering Titan
1 x Magister Sphinx
1 x Tormod's Crypt
1 x Flusterstorm
 

Oct 7, 2012 -- 8:27PM, Sleeping wrote:

Careful Study or Frantic Search seems good. Two fresh cards and pitch any creatures in your hand.

I was thinking careful study would be a good place. What should I ditch for the careful study? And what do we think about using the budget for Daze? It's tough being I really don't want to put more then ten dollars into this! LOL!

I may be picking up a set of shocklands being they are currently in standard, although I won't include that in this budget.... LOL! 

Oct 7, 2012 -- 9:09PM, Sleeping wrote:

I'd personally cut the Brainstorm and Ponder to complete the playset of Preordain and add a playset Careful Study . If you aquire any fetches you should obviously consider putting the Brainstorms and Ponders back in again though.

Gotcha, so in otherwords you say that since I don't plan on investing in the entombs, it's vital that I have a draw effect that allows me to dump stuff in the graveyard. Makes sense. That puts me at about $6 for a playset. So what to do with the remaining $4? Hmmm. By the way, I'm not awfully concerned about sticking to a $10 budget, it's more of a number I set because I don't want to blow much cash on this since I will rarely use the deck. So if it comes to $11-$15 I may bite the bullet.

How vital is Daze ? Should I get a playset of Spell Pierce to replace the Dispel ? Or should I invest on one more reanimate or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augor ?

What to do, what to do...

Funeral Charm are actually really good for a budget reanimator. 
You simply target yourself and pitch what creature you have, or you target your opponent, or one of their creatures. 
And it's an instant, so you can play it on their end step, just like Entomb.

As far as reanimation creatures go, without running a full four Entombs, you really need around eight fatties give or take.
Griselbrand is very popular for reanimator, but another card draw creature is Sphinx of Lost Truths
Iona is another obvious one, but I like Flayer of the Hatebound if you can bring back more than one big beast regularly.

Lookling at your land base, I'd consider going for the budget Terramorphic Expanse or Evolving Wilds.
Jwar-Isle Refuge aren't too bad for little money, and Saprazzan Skerry are pretty nice.

I wouldn't worry about playing Daze unless you're playing quite competitively - a lot of the time it's a dead card after turn 2 or 3, as your opponent just plays around it.