pauper-zombies

Pauper Mono-Black

scottnonnenberg

Creature (24)

• 4x Carrion Feeder
• 4x Festering Mummy
• 3x Gempalm Polluter
• 4x Ghoulraiser
• 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Shambling Goblin
• 4x Sultai Emissary

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 2x Chainer's Edict
• 3x Ghoulcaller's Chant
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 2x Sign in Blood

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Pestilence

Land (22)

• 2x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 19x Swamp

Instant (4)

• 2x Nameless Inversion
• 2x Vicious Offering

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Sideboard

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 4x Choking Sands
• 3x Duress

Creature (6)

• 2x Crypt Creeper
• 4x Shepherd of Rot

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Pestilence

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Key ideas:

• Tagline: Grindy, recursive zombies!
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Gempalm Polluter to do direct damage to opponent - just need lots of zombies on the battlefield for zombie count or devotion to black. Pestilence also does direct damage - just need to be ahead in life.
• Ghoulraiser and Ghoulcaller's Chant to repeatedly pull zombies back to hand from graveyard. Note that Nameless Inversion counts, since it's a changeling tribal instant!
• Quite a few ways to remove opponents' creatures: Pestilence, Chainer's Edict, Nameless Inversion, Vicious Offering, and two zombies that do -1/-1 to a target creature on death: Festering Mummy and Shambling Goblin
• Sultai Emissary is some good value - 1/1 to start, then a 2/2 manifest on death. We can cast that manifested card if it's a permanent. Note that ETB effects do not take effect when you flip a manifest like that, so we probably don't want to flip Gray Merchant of Asphodel.
• Sacrifice outlets: Carrion Feeder and Vicious Offering. Might as well sacrifice zombies for value if we can bring them back!
• Card draw with Sign in Blood.

Taken in March 2019 from https://www.channelfireball.com/pauper-mcq-top-8-decklists/

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Manifest 2/2 C