Innistrad Slaughterhouse..

Modern Aggro BR (Rakdos) Demons Theme/Gimmick Zombie

Metroid_Hybrid

Creature (24)

• 1x Abyssal Persecutor
• 4x Blood Artist
• 2x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 3x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 3x Geralf's Messenger
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 2x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Tymaret, the Murder King
• 1x Typhoid Rats
• 1x Vexing Devil

Land (20)

• 4x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 3x Blood Crypt
• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 2x Sulfurous Springs
• 7x Swamp

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Quest for the Gravelord

Instant (9)

• 2x Altar's Reap
• 2x Fling
• 2x Gravepurge
• 3x Lightning Bolt

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Bone Splinters
• 1x Browbeat
• 3x Traitorous Blood

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Sideboard

Artifact (6)

• 2x Elixir of Immortality
• 2x Pithing Needle
• 2x Tormod's Crypt

Instant (4)

• 2x Human Frailty
• 2x Smelt

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Appetite for Brains
• 1x Dreadbore
• 2x Duress

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound

Instant (3)

• 3x Tragic Slip

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Bump in the Night

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Originally based on the Avacyn Restored intro deck "Slaughterhouse".. I liked the idea, so I wanted to keep the theme, though I've altered it a great deal in pursuit of making it's execution both faster and more gruesome (read: actually playable beyond the kitchen table).. I used this as a standard FNM deck for a while, and it generally went 2-2 in a control-heavy meta, but it was otherwise fun to play.. But after rotation, rather than totally disassemble it, I decided to draw upon my card pool to see what I can do to 'modernize' it & possibly make it playable in the modern format.. And this is what it looks like so far..

Most of the cards tend to fall into 1(or more..) of the following categories:

Those that require sacrifice; Bone Splinters, Fling, Altar's Reap, Bloodthrone Vampire, Tymaret, the Murder King, & Demon of Death's Gate..

Those that provide that sacrifice; Typhoid Rats , Gravecrawler, Butcher Ghoul, Reassembling Skeleton, Geralf's Messenger, Abyssal Persecutor, and preferably even the opponent's own creature(s) via Traitorous Blood ..

And Those that provide benefit/punishment from all of that death..; Quest for the Gravelord(giant zombie token), Skirsdag High Priest (flying demon tokens..), Blood Artist(chip damage/healing)

...Then after all that, keep the party going with Gravepurge!

Top Ranked	Achieved #74 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	12 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 3 Rares 10 - 8 Uncommons 17 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.15
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Zombie Giant 5/5 B
Folders	Black, New Ideas, Decks to try