Against combo decks, being able to evoke Grief then reanimate it back on turn one is sometimes enough to win games on its own. I believe it is worse than the sorcery spell as you cannot target yourself, which comes up regularly for putting a creature into the graveyard, but having the ability to reanimate Grief from the graveyard is nice. Grief has also been a solid addition to the deck, acting as a fifth and sixth copy of Unmask. While it can be dealt with cleanly by a Swords to Plowshares, assuming you managed to hit a creature or planeswalker of theirs, they would have paid three cards (Swords, discarded card and creature/planeswalker) for your one ( Entomb/ Faithless Looting and reanimation spell offset by drawing a card). It’s also good against Delver, which happens to be the best deck in the format. The big flier has been a significant addition to the deck, as you now have a reanimation target that isn’t weak to Karakas, and is also great against Death and Taxes, which is the main Karakas deck of the format. Unsurprisingly, the two key additions from the past year are from Modern Horizons 2, in the form of Archon of Cruelty and Grief.
On the flip side, Chancellor of the Annex is not a good enough reanimation target against non-combo decks and is often a complete blank to draw as you cannot pitch it to Unmask or Grief as it’s not black. If you are on the draw and/or your hand is slow, then the opening hand trigger is likely to matter less for your opponent. The main problem with Chancellor of the Annex is that it is primarily only good on the play and if you have a quick hand, except in such a scenario you should already be winning. For nearly ten years, the card had been a staple of Reanimator decks, but in recent times most people have now dropped it, though online Reanimator master Ewlandon still plays the full playset. The significant change to this deck from prior years has been the total omission of Chancellor of the Annex from the maindeck.
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