The Unthinkable Graveyard, Zombie Self Mill

Modern* Aggro Competitive Mill Reanimator Tribal Zombie

Ghenni

Creature (19)

• 2x Advanced Stitchwing
• 3x Avatar of Woe
• 4x Cryptbreaker
• 2x Geralf's Masterpiece
• 4x Prized Amalgam
• 2x Skaab Ruinator
• 2x Stitchwing Skaab

Instant (8)

• 4x Dream Twist
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Land (20)

• 4x Crypt of Agadeem
• 4x Dakmor Salvage
• 4x Fetid Pools
• 3x Island
• 1x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 4x Breaking / Entering
• 2x Collective Brutality
• 4x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 3x Pilfered Plans

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Countersquall
• 2x Dismember
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Sinister Concoction

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Bitter Ordeal

Artifact (2)

• 2x Elixir of Immortality

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Maybeboard

Instant (12)

• 4x Accumulated Knowledge
• 4x Brainstorm
• 4x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Bridge from Below

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Ancestral Vision

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Open to suggestions!I believe this deck needs a bit of card draw to populate the player's hand. I'm thinking about replacing some Dream Twist with some other car. Just not sure which yet.

"Fusing intelligence with the power of undeath requires inspiration of the darkest kind."

The Unthinkable Graveyard is a deck built to guarantee summoning control and speed. The wizard will often be casting from the graveyard instead of his own hand. It has been perfected over time and gained both speed and power.

With the simple idea of milling yourself to populate your graveyard, cards that depend on nothing else than themselves will make you easily cast powerful Zombies.

Strategy

The win condition of this Deck is by killing your enemy with either Geralf's Masterpiece with its great Flying ability 7/7, or with Avatar of Woe's fear + destroy creature ability.

That said, be ready to mill yourself and discard everything you have. You only need mana and mill spells in your hand.

Rule #1Always get Gravecrawler killed/discarded. Never cast it from your hand. Use him to kill your opponent's early game creatures. Also get ready to use Dismember/Sinister Concoction/Countersquall specially early game. See next rule.

Rule #2This deck takes 3~4 turns to ramp, but it ramps really well. Never cast a creature from your hand, unless it's Gravecrawler or Cryptbreaker.

Rule #3Cryptbreaker is the best card for early game in this deck. With it, try to get as much 2/2 zombies as you can while you mill yourself later on.

Individual Card choices

• Avatar of Woe: Hugely benefits from 10 cards total in ALL graveyards together + Fear + Creature destroy ability
• Breaking / Entering: Good instantaneous self mill
• Collective Brutality: Good effects + discard as a side effect
• Cryptbreaker: Discard + Draws
• Dream Twist: Handy ability to mill from graveyard
• Geralf's Masterpiece: Usually no cards in hand on late game, so a 7/7 with flying is great!
• Glimpse the Unthinkable: Good instantaneous mill
• Graf Harvest: Makes zombies a bit more dangerous :)
• Gravecrawler: Combos really well with Prized Amalgam
• Haunted Dead: Cast from graveyard + combo with Prized Amalgam
• Noxious Revival: Unsure this card is really needed for reasons other than resurrecting Avatar of Woe
• Pilfered Plans: Discard and draw
• Prized Amalgam: Combo with the entire deck
• Stitchwing Skaab: Same as Haunted Dead but it flies!

Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	RG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 4 Rares 8 - 10 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
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