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It grants your exalted trigger to an attacking creature while sitting back on defense

Mantle of the Ancients will ETB and recur all Auras and equipiemt to the battlefeild attached to this thing, great recursion, and it'll grow in size for the attached count, so it's a smattering of win-con too

The last such breakthroughs were the Trigger system and AbilityFactory system(huge boost there, in particular) and now we're looking at multi-state cards(Innistrad DFCs and Kamigawa Flips) and possibly scriptable replacement effects

One of the best ways to lessen the drawback of Recurring Nightmare's extra requirement is to draft creatures that can do the other job a reanimation deck requires: getting reanimation targets into your graveyard