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LifelessGlory
"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh."
Intro
This deck is my representation of Zombies in MtG - fast, fearful, ruthless, and the apotheosis of fun!
I wanted to create something a bit different (again), accessible, affordable and that could compete with the other decks in the standard format.
No fancy combo or shenanigans in there: just some mindless, aggressive, destructive and in-you-face action.
Blitzkrieg
These are your braindead soldiers. They don't sleep, they don't breath, and they certainly ran out of f*cks to give a long time ago. They have low cmc, do a lot of damage and are hard to kill so should have the early board advantage.
- Gravecrawler: I usually have one in the opening hand and that's a great sign: it means 2 to 4 quick damage in the first 2 turns.
- Butcher Ghoul : 2 cmc undying zombie. Great chump blocker.
- Highborn Ghoul : Also 2 cmc but the Intimidate ability really shines agains decks that doesn't play Black.
- Geralf's Messenger: I love this card. 2 damage when he enters the battlefield and when he dies, he comes back even bigger (4/3) while dealing another round of direct damage.
- Unbreathing Horde: These guys are awesome! They are relatively cheap, are great chump blockers (remove a counter instead of being dealt damage), and since I run a lot of zombies they sometimes comes on the board as 8/8 creature.
- Diregraf Captain: The captain buffs your zombies, has Deathtouch, and thanks to his "1 damage when a zombie dies" ability usually ends up doing a lot of damage.
Beautiful Death
The thing I love the most about this deck is the luxury to decide how your opponent will die. Most of the time, I find that emptying my challenger's life points is way too mundane and boring; thankfully this deck offers you the possibility to build an army of flesh-hungry beasts that will practically "eat" your opponent's library, thus giving you an alternative way of winning.
- Undead Alchemist: Also know as "The Mill Machine", "The Zombie Breeder", "The Exiler", etc.
- Rogue's Passage: This ability is a bit coslty, but when used with Undead Alchemist on the board it almost garantees you to create new Zombie tokens.
Removal
To clear the way for your undead invasion, I've included a couple removal utilities.
- Bone Splinters: Used with Gravecrawler or any undying creature, it's a cheap and universal option.
- Tribute to Hunger : Great to get rid of hexproof suckers (yeah I'm talking to you Invisible Stalker) or Avacyn, Angel of Hope, and the extra cmc (compared to Devour Flesh ) is worth it for the lifegain.
- Grimgrin, Corpse-Born: To be honest, not a lot of games I've played were long enough for Grimgrin to attack, but it's another removal option.
Die Another Day
A great feature of this deck is the ability to come back from the dead. It's a great protection against board wipes, direct removal, and can completely change a game.
- Havengul Lich: Gives you the ability to bring back dead creatures from your graveyard.
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed: Gives all your other zombies creatures undying and boost everybody (including the gazillion tokens) +1/+1.
Weaknesses
For those of you who didn't know, zombies don't fly. Here's a couple other downsides of running a heavy aggro undead mono-black deck:
- Spectral Flight : The lack of flying creatures can be relieve using this card present in the sideboard.
- More to come, will update as I continue playtesting it
Conclusion
I've played this deck for some time now and it's really fun. I've lost to a couple high-budget/comptetitive decks, but each victory provides an addicting evil satisfaction.
For those of you asking, the average deck price shown on the page is a bit high to be tagged as "budget". Fortunately, you can replace the dual lands (Drowned Catacomb, Watery Grave) and save around $30.
Enjoy responsively and please +1 it if you like!
Thanks!
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| Date added | 11 years |
| Last updated | 7 years |
| Legality | This deck is not Standard legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 3 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 5 Rares 9 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 3 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.71 |
| Tokens | Zombie 2/2 B |
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