GERALF’S CORPSE LAUNCHER - Zombie Combo [VOW]

Standard BUG (Sultai) Combo Flashback Jank Midrange Mill Suicide Black Tokens Toughness Matters Zombie

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Land (18)

• 4x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Deathcap Glade
• 3x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Swamp

Reanimator (4)

• 4x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip

Removal (6)

• 4x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 2x The Meathook Massacre

Self-Mill (11)

• 4x Larder Zombie
• 3x Otherworldly Gaze
• 4x Undead Butler

Utility Creature (6)

• 4x Jaspera Sentinel
• 2x Selhoff Entomber

Zombie Fatties (6)

• 3x Ancient Lumberknot
• 3x Unhallowed Phalanx

Zombie Launcher (7)

• 4x Catapult Fodder  ^Flip
• 3x Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombie Token Generator (2)

• 2x Ghoulcaller's Harvest

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 3x Bloodline Culling
• 2x Hero's Downfall
• 4x Masked Vandal
• 2x Test of Talents
• 4x Turn the Earth

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Maybeboard

Creature (31)

• 4x Archghoul of Thraben
• 4x Bladestitched Skaab
• 4x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 4x Headless Rider
• 4x Overcharged Amalgam
• 4x Persistent Specimen
• 2x Realmwalker
• 4x Shambling Ghast

Draw (3)

• 3x Village Rites

Land (2)

• 1x Forest
• 1x Island

Other (4)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Sorin the Mirthless
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Recursion (2)

• 1x Diregraf Rebirth
• 1x Dryad's Revival

Removal (6)

• 1x Bloodline Culling
• 3x Eaten Alive
• 2x Geistwave

Self-Mill (10)

• 4x Consider
• 2x Mulch
• 2x Strategic Planning
• 2x Tapping at the Window

Token (4)

• 4x Rotten Reunion

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GREETINGS!

As soon as I saw Catapult Fodder   and Unhallowed Phalanx from Innistrad: Crimson Vow, I knew I had to build a deck around them. This janky monstrosity is the result.

OBJECTIVE

My goal is to maintain a defensive position while pursuing one or more of the following strategies:

1) Transform Catapult Fodder   into Catapult Captain as early as turn 3. To do so, I run only creatures with greater toughness then power. Once I have a Cap’n, I can summon Unhallowed Phalanx, then eventually launch it at my opponent’s face for 13 damage.

2) Geralf, Visionary Stitcher bestows my Zombies with flying and can convert my 1/13 Phalanxes into 13/13 Zombie tokens.

3) Ancient Lumberknot turns each of my high-toughness creatures into powerhouses. If I control a Lumberknot and Geralf, my Phalanxes can fly and deal 13 damage.

4) Self-milling/discard via Larder Zombie, Otherworldly Gaze, Selhoff Entomber, and Undead Butler fill up my graveyard with creatures. Then I can cast Ghoulcaller's Harvest and generate as many Zombie tokens as possible.

5) Once I have a large Zombie horde, I kill as many as possible with The Meathook Massacre to drain my opponent’s life. My most important creatures are outside of the Massacre’s kill range. Dying Butlers return important creatures to my hand like Lumberknot and Phalanxes.

CARD CHOICES

Utility Creatures

Jaspera Sentinel isn’t a Zombie, but she helps me ramp into a Lumberknot or Phalanx.

Removal

Bloodchief's Thirst is a flexible removal spell which covers both creatures and Walkers.

Manabase

3-color decks are difficult to make consistent without running Evolving Wilds, which I think is far too slow for this build. To increase speed, I am running dual-faced Pathways for each of the Sultai colors (Barkchannel Pathway  , Darkbore Pathway  , and Murkwater Pathway  ), as well as additional dual lands (Deathcap Glade and Shipwreck Marsh). I include a single Swamp in case I lose a land to Field of Ruin.

I’m also running a full playset of Agadeem's Awakening  , which double as both a land and reanimation spell.

SIDEBOARD

Bloodline Culling can kill indestructible creatures with 5 toughness or less, or can wipe the board of tokens.

Hero's Downfall is back-up Walker removal.

Masked Vandal is a Zombie which has greater toughness than power and exiles any troublesome artifact or enchantment.

Test of Talents is a great counterspell which is a pseudo-Surgical Extraction for instants and sorceries. I can use it to counter my opponent’s graveyard hate and prevent my opponent from casting more copies of the same spell.

Turn the Earth is my choice of graveyard hate. It not only removes threats in my opponent’s graveyard, but also heals me and has flashback.

EXCLUSIONS

I specifically excluded the cards on the Maybeboard.

Champion of the Perished is awesome, but doesn’t trigger Catapult Fodder  , and I am running non-Zombies in this build.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Splash colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 3 Rares 15 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie */* U
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