Concept
This is a aggressive-leaning zombie deck with some strategies lifted from Daniel Cathro's excellent UB Zombies deck. Now it's also influenced by Brandon Ayers' Black-Red madness deck. It's focused on going wide fast by chucking
Haunted Dead
s in the graveyard with stuff like Cryptbreaker, Smuggler's Copter, and
Contingency Plan
, resurrecting Prized Amalgams, and cheating out Voldaren Pariah
. You can also just easily smash face early with Scrapyard Scrounger (who also helps cheat out Prized Amalgam), and the aformentioned Smuggler's Copter (which nicely fits Cryptbreaker,
Insolent Neonate
and tokens in the cockpit.) On the removal side Collective Brutality (which gives you discards!) and Grasp of Darkness are excellent for early threats, and it's not unreasonable to use Voldaren Pariah
as a virtual board wipe. Ceremonious Rejection in the mainboard can give you a good tempo advantage against opposing copters, Eldrazi, Devoid spells, and pre-sideboard Marvels.
Sideboard
For any really tricky spell problems, you've got Negate, and for those pesky eldrazi and artifacts you have another Ceremonious Rejection.
Liliana, the Last Hope is an obvious all-star, especially in this deck. However, walkers are a little dangerous in this meta, so the sideboard is a safer place to start her.
Transgress the Mind does what it needs to do, upset your combo-y, , controll-y foes, as does
Distended Mindbender
, which combos nicely with
Haunted Dead
(who doesn't like 3-mana 5/5s?)
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet loves to eat weenie decks, mess up graveyard strategies, and puts you back in the game against aggro.
