Flayer, Aristocrat of Hate

Modern*

SGB517

Creature (26)

• 4x Butcher Ghoul
• 4x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 4x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 4x Geralf's Messenger
• 4x Hound of Griselbrand
• 2x Pyreheart Wolf
• 4x Stromkirk Noble

Land (21)

• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 8x Mountain
• 9x Swamp

Artifact (5)

• 3x Contagion Clasp
• 2x Contagion Engine

Instant (6)

• 3x Grim Affliction
• 3x Volt Charge

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Black Sun's Zenith

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Demonlord of Ashmouth

Artifact (4)

• 2x Contagion Engine
• 2x Sphere of the Suns

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Spread the Sickness

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I built a deck out of undying creatures that had a lot of proliferate cards before the release of AVR. That expansion included more undying creatures and I removed the green cards to focus on the following combo.

The winning condition for this deck is to have a Flayer of the Hatebound, a Falkenrath Aristocrat, and some undying creatures that have no +1/+1 counters on them. When you have enough creatures out with this combo, you can sacrifice them for the Aristocrat's ability, after which they will return and you can hit your opponent(s) and their creatures.

The deck works quite well as a combat beater when your opponent kills off one of the pieces of your combo, and the deck is just a lot of fun to play with.

I think that Gravecrawler would be a nice addition, but I have spent a good chunk of change on this deck and am done spending money on it until I can't use Proliferate in Standard anymore.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 2 Mythic Rares 26 - 4 Rares 5 - 2 Uncommons 10 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.23