These decks need to have an abundance of card advantage and mana to keep up with the table, so be generous with your card draw and ramp spells when youre building a deck around one of these cards
Third, examine combat triggers
However, the life gain this deck leans on also keeps it alive after it drops this, and even a simple Congregate can be enough to get you over your needed life, especially if twinned with other life gain cards like Rhox Faithmender
Riptide Laboratory Lands that enhance control decks rarely let me down
The only real knocks I could see against this design are the logistical burden of having another emblem-type player effect to track, and the way that the maximum speed of four occasionally limits how card effects can scale with it
In a reanimate deck I will often play a Living Death simply as a Wrath of God that has a free part of my combo bolted onto it