I built this deck from the ground up over about a year. IT was the first deck I ever made when I was introduced to Magic. And I've slowly been experimenting with it, and I've found a happy medium where I am now. It's not quite a zombie horde deck, and not quite a zombie lord deck either. I'm really just looking for some feedback, and suggestions on my deck.
With Creatures, I opted to take Gravecrawler over Diregraf Ghoul because I like to play aggressively, and this way I can use my fetch cards to bring bigger cards back from the graveyard.
Geralf's Messenger and Diregraf Ghoul are the zombies I am more aggressive with, and the both have nice ETB effects, and Ghoul gives me more tokens every time I cast.
Liliana's Reaver and Grave Titan are the big cheese of the deck. Using Buried Alive + Victimize
to sacrifice a Gravecrawler, by turn 4, I could have 2 grave titans with 4 zombie tokens in play, along with a Gravecrwler or 2.
I threw in Abattoir Ghoul because he has a nice little combo with Death Baron I can use to get a little life back if I need too.
Death Baron/Undead Warchief/Zombie Master/Cemetery Reaper and Lord of the Undead were all must haves for the Direct buffs to my Zombies. The +1/+1s and +2/+1s are amazing for turning my 2/1 Gravecrawlers or 2/2 Tokens into 7/6's. Also, throw in death touch, and regenerate for extra dickery.
I use Dark Ritual to help pump out larger zombies quickly in the game, like playing a Dark Ritual + Geralf's Messenger + Swamp
is a nasty combo for turn one.
I opt to take Victim of Night over Doomblade, because it seems no one ever uses Zombies, Werewolves, or Vampires in my area. And. this way I can still have some 2 cost kill spells, but can target black creatures as well. I threw Doomblades in my sideboard just in case.
I used to always use Disentomb, but I swapped it for Ghoulcaller's Chant. That way I can bring back either 2 zombies from my graveyard, or a Grave Titan if I need to.
Buried Alive + Victimize
is a neat combo I learned from my friend who got me into magic. You can put 3 creatures from your library into the graveyard, so I can fetch them out later. Victimize lets my bring 2 creatures to the battlefield from the graveyard if I sacrifice one, so I usually sac a Gravecrawler, so I can bring him back without using a Chant.
Endless Ranks of the Dead and Call to the Grave were obvious choices. Endless ranks so it can rain zombies. And unfortunately Grave Titan isn't a zombie, I'm forced to sac him when my upkeep rolls around.
Quest for the Gravelord was a neat card I picked up for a little surprise if someone wants to swing at my when I'm tapped out, or wont block with my zombie lords.
Any and all criticism is welcome, Thanks for reading!
