Look out for the new commander masters decl releasing in August. One of them is an abzan enchantment creature reanimator deck that I think will prove very promising.
I had a nice Kathril Aspect Warper deck. It was mainly a voltron deck but used the graveyard instead of auras/equipments etc... My goal was to pack the deck with creatures that had as many keywords as possible on them and find a way to discard them reliably. I could then cast Kathril as a flying first strike double strike trample vigilance lifelink indestructible reach deathtouch hexproof menace with +11/+11 counters. Game was over in max three turns after that. Before the appearance of Farewell, it never ever got removed. I got there using graveyard tutor effects like Fauna Shaman or Jarad's orders to get some of the most loaded creatures I could find. MVPS were Zetalpa Primal Dawn, Bassara Tower archer and Akroma vision of Ixidor (angel!). The deck is white so it's a good idea to run some good ole Rule of law, Ghostly Prison, Thalia etc..since you might be opened a bit during early game. I didn't really bother as I would rather focus but I did try this strat to great effect. Anyway kinda fun deck although a bit repetitive with the tutor targets and all but definitely a unique take on voltron as far as I can tell.
You could totally build a reanimator/stax deck by building it around self-mill and hatebears in abzan!
There's a couple routes you could take, the first that comes to mind is to not be too commander-dependent. Through a commander like Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa. She's great because you can just put pressure on opponents and get benefits by skimming off the top of their decks while you slow everyone's game plans down through your hatebears and reanimation.
The second way is to actually focus on the commander a bit, with for example Nethroi or Meren for reanimation. Or someone more janky like Myrkul for essentially turning your fragile little hatebears into immortal stax pieces
Personally I would go even crazier with Tayam because I simply adore that commander.
P.S. yeah there's a reason my username is izzen't (->abzan fan)
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