The Swampening™ (Zombie Trailblazer pdh)

Pauper EDH Mono-Black

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Creature (31)

• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Cyclopean Giant
• 1x Diregraf Horde
• 1x Festering Goblin
• 1x Festering Mummy
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gempalm Polluter
• 1x Ghoulraiser
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Physician
• 1x Gurmag Angler
• 1x Hunted Ghoul
• 1x Infectious Horror
• 1x Jarl of the Forsaken
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Lurching Rotbeast
• 1x Maggot Carrier
• 1x Morkrut Behemoth
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Servant of Tymaret
• 1x Shambling Ghast
• 1x Shambling Goblin
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Tattered Mummy
• 1x Terrus Wurm
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Zombie Cannibal

Instant (15)

• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Mirrodin Avenged
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Raise the Draugr
• 1x Rotten Reunion
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vile Rebirth
• 1x Village Rites

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Contaminated Ground
• 1x Evil Presence
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Tainted Well
• 1x Tortured Existence

Land (35)

• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 33x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cemetery Recruitment
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Crawl from the Cellar
• 1x Drain Life
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant
• 1x Gruesome Fate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Shamble Back
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Unearth

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Trial list for a mono-B zombie control deck. The idea is pretty simple: get a bunch of zombies on the field and tap them during the opponent's turn to change their lands into swamps. Dual? Swamp. Command tower? Swamp. Everything is a swamp now. Multi-color decks are especially easy to cripple with this because you can target their most needed lands. A couple sub-themes:

• The deck is heavy in creature removal which makes it easy to sweep up the creatures that actually do manage to get cast through The Swampening™.

• There are a few ways to permanently turn opponent lands into swamps (Contaminated Ground, Tainted Well, etc). Not only does this invalidate multi-color lands (especially if they're not in black) but it gives us a permanent in-road for the couple big hitters in the deck. Tapping one zombie to give them swampwalk is easier than doing two to create a swamp and then add swampwalk.

• Recursion. The commander is pretty important to the deck and we're zombies so there are PUH-LENTY of ways to get creatures back from the GY. This also helps keep the friendly side of the battlefield stocked with fodder for further swampening (Cemetery Recruitment, Unearth, etc).

• Along with the large creatures using swampwalk to get damage in there are a few ways to hit for big damage to finish things up late game (Corrupt, Consume Spirit, etc).

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.42
Tokens	Foretell, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B
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