A Chromantiflayer Named Zetalpa

Pioneer Aggro BG (Golgari) BRG (Jund) Combo Competitive Five Color

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Creature (29)

• 4x Chromanticore
• 4x Deathrite Shaman
• 2x Hazoret the Fervent
• 4x Lotleth Troll
• 3x Questing Beast
• 2x Samut, Voice of Dissent
• 4x Soulflayer
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
• 2x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Land (21)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 4x Mana Confluence
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Stomping Ground

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Gather the Pack
• 2x Thoughtseize

Instant (4)

• 4x Grisly Salvage

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 2x Damping Sphere
• 2x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 2x Lost Legacy
• 2x Thoughtseize

Instant (4)

• 1x Back to Nature
• 3x Unravel the Aether

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With the new Pioneer format there are some funny and spicy brews, and one of the brwes that I liked so much is Soulflayer decks!

The deck is divided in:

Mana Dorks

• Deathrite Shaman: In pioneer the Shaman is't good like in older formats, because this is a fetchless format (I'm happy for this). But Deathrite ir really good in decks that fill the graveyard quickly like that.

• Sylvan Caryatid: Is one of the best mana dorks of Pioneer actually. And a very important thing is that has Hexproof, that is very good for a mana dork, but also is the only card in the deck that can give Hexproof to Soulflayer.

Fill that Graveyard

• Stitcher's Supplier: Really, this is the best self-mill card of pioneer, and of the bests of modern (hello Hedron Crab), and that is because paying only one single black mana we can put up to 6 cards in our graveyard from the top of our library, that is an insane value in decks like that.

• Satyr Wayfinder: Another efficient self-mill card, that can help us to find lands.

• Grisly Salvage: It has an effect similar to the Satyr ability, but with this also we can get important creatures.

• Lotleth Troll: Essential creature that can help us to discard creatures that we dont need in our hand (making them targets for Soulflayer), growing itself to be a considerable threat. Also can give trample to Soulflayer if its in the graveyard (that sometimes is more important than it seems).

Flayer-Time

• Soulflayer: The base of the deck. The idea is to make this vanilla 4/4 into a very dangerous threat.

• Find / Finality: This is only here for Finf, that can help us to get Soulflayer if it goes to the graveyard, or sometimes other useful creatures.

Grow that Flayer!

• Hazoret the Fervent: Giving our Soulflayer haste and indestructible is a good reason to be here, and sometimes we can play it, because also is a very good creature that can bother very well our opponents, and can let us win without Soulflayer.

• Samut, Voice of Dissent: A great target for Soulflayer, that is another of the cards that can let us to win if we don't find that Soulflayer.

• Zetalpa, Primal Dawn: The best target for Soulflayer, but with the downside that we can't play it.

• Chromanticore: Like Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, it gives a lot of abilities to Soulflayer, but unlike the Elder Dinosaur we can play it. seems a prohibitive cost, but isn't a problem, and thanks to Sylvan Caryatid, Deathrite Shaman and Mana Confluence probably we can pay the .

Sideboard chioces

This is a very simple sideboard:

• Pithing Needle: Good against Aetherworks Marvel or against any deck that plays powerful planeswalkers like Teferi, Time Raveler of Oko, Thief of Crowns.

• Thoughtseize: Is a very good card in midrange, control and combo matchups, and that makes it a basic card in the sideboard, if its not in the maindeck.

• Assassin's Trophy: With it we can answer problematic permanents, but the most important is that this can deal with some of the most popular graveyard hate cards, that are Leyline of the Void, Rest in Peace Scavenger Grounds and others

• Grafdigger's Cage: Graveyard hate that don't affects us and good card against Aetherworks Marvel and Collected Company

• Back to Nature: Card against hate, but can be useful against enchantress or constellation decks.

Thas is all! You like the deck? Any suggestion? Tell me in the comments!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	28 - 1 Mythic Rares 22 - 8 Rares 4 - 6 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.28
Folders	decks to try